{"id":2697,"date":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/whole-district-reform-oh-my\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:49:49","slug":"whole-district-reform-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/whole-district-reform-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole District Reform &#8211; Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2899\" style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2899 \" alt=\"Bruce Beasley\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumb.png\" width=\"75\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Beasley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this in all my days of visiting schools and districts &#8212; whole district reform designed around a shared vision, similar practices, and such a high degree of transparency.\u00a0 Of course we have a growing number of competency-based schools generating innovative practices, but my visits to Maine and Lindsay California have convinced me that the power of competency education is through aligning all the schools!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have a chance to hear about how a district is making this shift at our next webinar on February 26th at\u00a0 3:30 &#8211; 4:30.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?formkey=dE5uU0NQWVh5Rl83VVl2b2hVUjVZWVE6MA#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent\u00a0Bruce Beasley and\u00a0 Karen Caprio, Director of Curriculum and Staff Development from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msad15.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSAD 15\u00a0<\/a>or Gray-New Gloucester, Maine will be joining us to take us through their journey.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why did MSAD15 decided to embrace a proficiency-based model?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What was the pre-implementation process?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is the overall structure or approach you use in proficiency-based education?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What were the major issues that developed when you first began to implement proficiency-based education?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How does your approach vary across elementary, middle and high school?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What were the major issues that developed in implementation in high school?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do some background reading before the webinar, MSAD 15 is highlighted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/resources\/making-mastery-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making Mastery Work: A Close-Up View of Competency Education<\/a>\u00a0.<\/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],"location":[94],"class_list":["post-2697","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-learn-lessons-from-the-field","location-maine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whole District Reform - Oh My! 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