CompetencyWorks | April 2022

April 12, 2022

This newsletter shares recent CompetencyWorks blog posts and Aurora Institute resources, providing thought leadership and practical lessons from the field to support transformation toward personalized, competency-based K-12 schools and systems.

Rethinking the Master Schedule in Competency-Based Schools

Yes, the master schedule can be improved! Sandra Moumoutjis offers many practical strategies from Building 21 Allentown for scheduling that supports competency-based education and works around time-based, age-based, course-based, and systemic constraints.

Transparently Tracking and Communicating Progress and Growth in Competency-Based Schools

Starting with a summary of the key differences between traditional and competency-based systems for monitoring and communicating student progress, Sandra Moumoutjis walks us through Building 21’s journey to rethink and rebuild their systems. She shares many tips, images, and open-source tools to support similar journeys for other schools moving toward competency-based systems.

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Better Together: Connecting Project-Based Learning & Competency-Based Education

CBE and PBL offer powerful, complementary strategies for greater student engagement and more authentic learning inside and outside the classroom. But how do they connect in actual implementation? A recent Aurora Institute webinar led by Lucas Education Research featured a student, teacher, principal, and network leaders offering insights to advance PBL in your CBE school and vice versa.

Pairing Competency-Based Education with Project-Based Learning Makes for a Powerful Learning Experience

In this CompetencyWorks blog post, Kristin De Vivo, executive director of Lucas Education Research, highlights key lessons learned and resources offered by the presenters of the CBE + PBL webinar described in the previous entry in this newsletter.

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About CompetencyWorks

CompetencyWorks is an initiative that provides information and knowledge about competency-based education in the K-12 education system. Drawing on lessons learned by innovators and early adopters, CompetencyWorks is an online resource for sharing knowledge, original research and policy advances, and a variety of field perspectives. CompetencyWorks provides an informative blog with practitioner knowledge on key topics and papers on emerging issues, with resources curated from across the field of K-12 competency-based education.

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