CompetencyWorks | February 2019

Dear Colleagues, 

It’s time to submit proposals to the iNACOL Symposium. We hope you have heard about this through other channels too, as proposals are due March 8, but we wanted to share this reminder.

In January and February, guest bloggers provided two series of posts with great insights for competency-based education practice. Jenny Poon, a consultant and Fellow with the Center for Innovation in Education, interviewed several CBE practitioners about “how competency-based systems wrestle with education’s stickiest, most human questions.”

• “In Real Life” series introduction
• Who gets to decide what student outcomes matter?
• How can we design outcomes aimed for equity?
• How can CBE systems ensure that learning is deep, ongoing, and integrated by using project-based learning and student exhibitions or a culture of revision?
• How do CBE systems manage differences in pace?
• How can we help every student reach mastery?
  
  

Katherine Casey is an independent consultant and author of iNACOL’s recent report Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing, and Sustaining Educators for Competency-Based Education. She interviewed several practitioners and drew on her own experience as a district administrator to apply insights and strategies from the report on the following topics: