Jonathan Vander Els<\/strong> serves as a project director for the New Hampshire Learning Initiative, overseeing and participating in various projects related to personalized and competency-based learning throughout the State of NH. Formerly, Jonathan was principal of Memorial Elementary School in Sanborn Regional School District in New Hampshire. Under his leadership, Memorial School became a nationally recognized model PLC and competency-based learning elementary environment.<\/p>\nJonathan specializes in supporting teachers and administrators in schools and districts in New Hampshire and across the country in developing, sustaining, and enhancing structures to support all learners. As a practitioner, Jonathan is able to blend his experience and expertise to meet educators where they are and assist them in developing practical next steps to ensure high levels of learning for students in their school.<\/p>\n
Jonathan has consulted, coached, and presented at conferences and Institutes throughout the United States on building highly effective PLCs, implementing competency-based and personalized learning, and developing balanced and rigorous assessment systems. Jonathan is a Solution Tree Professional Learning Communities at Work Author and Associate, having co-written Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work.<\/p>\n
Jonathan has an education specialist degree from the University of New Hampshire in educational administration and supervision, a master\u2019s in elementary education, a bachelor\u2019s in history. Jonathan is currently enrolled at the University of New Hampshire in their Ph.D. Educational Leadership and Policy strand, with a focus on competency-based learning. Jonathan lives with his wife and three children on the New Hampshire Seacoast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mapsvg_location":""},"legacy_category":[],"issue":[368,371,399],"location":[],"class_list":["post-12613","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-learn-lessons-from-the-field","issue-activate-student-agency"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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