{"id":3045,"date":"2014-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/whats-new-in-competency-education-2\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:52:30","slug":"whats-new-in-competency-education-2","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/whats-new-in-competency-education-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in Competency Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a quick review of some of the great things happening or reported about in competency education last week!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great Articles on Leading Schools and Districts<a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-20-at-8.24.23-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6990\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-20 at 8.24.23 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-20-at-8.24.23-AM.png\" width=\"137\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/n\/2014-06-17-how-lindsay-unified-redesigned-itself-from-the-ground-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Lindsay Unified Redesigned Itself From The Ground Up<\/a> in Ed Surge<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2014\/06\/step-by-step-the-journey-towards-freedom-from-grade-levels-competency-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Step By Step, the Journey Towards Freedom From Grade Levels<\/a> focuses on Sanborn Regional High School in Mind\/Shift<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Districts Beginning the Journey<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalstandard.com\/article\/20140610\/NEWS\/140619894\/10286\/NEWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freeport School District, <\/a>Illinois: We haven&#8217;t heard much about competency education from Illinois even though one of the earliest models was developed there by the Young Women&#8217;s Leadership Charter School. (Note: Although YWLCS was highlighted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aypf.org\/documents\/ANewModelofStudentAssessmentforthe21stCentury.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A New Model of Assessments for the 21st Century<\/a> it is no longer a competency-based school). In 2014-15 school year, Freeport is going to being to convert grades\u00a0 K-4 to mastery-based learning.\u00a0 The superintendent leading this effort is Roberta Selleck\u00a0 previously from Adams 50.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New Resources and Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christenseninstitute.org\/publications\/schools-and-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schools and Software: What&#8217;s now and What&#8217;s Next by Christensen Institute<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christenseninstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/School-systems-software-maps.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School Systems Software Maps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/n\/2014-06-17-what-k-12-schools-want-from-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What K-12 Schools Want From Software<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.solution-tree.com\/MRL-2014-A-School-Leaders-Guide-to-Standards-Based-Grading-Release-Email_MRL-2014-46MEE-A-School-Leaders-Guide-to-Standards-Based-Grading-Release-Email_Follow-Up.html?aliId=74291965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School Leaders Guide to Standards-based Grading <\/a>by Marzano Research Laboratory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3045","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-learn-lessons-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s New in Competency Education? 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