Archive: 2016
Building a Movement from Within for Competency-Based Education
By: Patrice Glancey. In transitioning a school to competency-based education, an educator and curriculum consultant shares how the fire of change must start from within with teacher-leaders.
Every Student is a STEM Student
By: Elaine Menardi. "Every Student STEM" means that every young person in our school system today is a digital native, having grown up immersed in technology.
Five Ways Participants Get Value From Professional Learning MOOCs
By: Blythe Tyron. Here are five ways educators gain value from professional development through learning communities or networks such as MOOC-Eds.
On Equity in Education. Both Kinds.
By: Matt Candler. For too long, we’ve focused on the fairness and justice part of equity in education, but too rarely have we also been concerned with sharing its ownership. Let's do both.
Five Things for Big Districts to Think About
After speaking with district leaders, here are five thoughts on how big districts can move forward toward personalized, competency-based education.
The Role of Performance Monitoring in Competency-Based Education
By: Jason Ellingson. Competency-based learning may resolve some of the concerns with current approaches to performance monitoring being publicly displayed.
Designing Digital Learning Professional Development
digiLEARN has selected 20 Digital Scholars from across the state of North Carolina to design a plan for what digital learning professional development should look like for their educators.
What Is The Foundation of Personalized Learning?
By: Courtney Belolan. In order for learner-centered proficiency-based systems to work, the learning community culture needs to nurture and sustain these three elements.
Do You Have A Blended Learning Department? You Should.
Washington, D.C., is an interesting place for education, as we recently witnessed while touring schools there with a group from Kansas City to learn more about what the district has done to blended and personalized learning.
EdTech 10: Measure Twice, Learn Once
This week's EdTech 10 includes stories on the importance of measuring learning as well as examples of the many different types of learning that can be measured.