Eight Ways New Schools Innovate
[…] One Stone in Boise uses a mobile social learning app ThriveCast to promote priority skills in support of a mastery transcript. New Tech Network schools share Echo, a project-based learning platform. Lindsay USD and Highland Academy support competency-based progressions with Empower Learning. Energy Institute High uses corporate level mathematical and scientific problem-solving simulations. Thousands of schools use Concord Consortium modeling, analysis, and simulation tools. […]
Summer Learning Opportunities for Community and Real World Experiences
[…] certainly, the ‘missing’ learners who never showed up during the pandemic. Equity is at the heart of the national discussion. Follow the Leader Many competency systems, like Lindsay USD and Westminster Public Schools, will continue to meet learners where they are and rely on learning platforms with common assessments and increased access to online learning. […]
Why Students Should Co-author Learning
[…] are developed through opportunities to choose. Learners should be invited to coauthor goals, learning experiences, and leadership experiences. Coauthored Goals Co-authoring starts with students owning learning targets. Lindsay USD “Learners work toward meaningful short- and long-term goals and can articulate why they are prioritizing these goals, how short-term goals (e.g., success on daily work) build toward […]
What’s the EdTech Vaccine? 10 Design Principles
[…] more : Philanthropic funding for new school models (like NewSchoools Venture Fund, Walton’s Innovative Schools Program, and VELA); Sponsored partnerships between competency-based systems and edtech providers (like Lindsay USD and Empower and Latitude High and Headrush); Support for community conversations considering broader outcomes frameworks like Building Blocks from Turnaround and Portrait of a Graduate froom Battelle for Kids; Regional initiatives […]
Students as Coauthors of Learning: A Resources Guide
[…] daily, weekly, and session learning goals. Near-peers (middle with elementary, high school with middle) support goal setting and monitoring (see Courage to Grow by co-founder Laura Sandefer). Lindsay USD is best in class at daily goal setting. Learning facilitators (teachers) ensure learners internalize short- and long-term goals that build toward a meaningful purpose for learning […]
Podcast: Tom Rooney and Scott Rowe: Buildings are Closed, Learning Goes On!
We spoke with Tom Rooney (@TomTrooney) superintendent of Lindsay Unified School District (@Lindsay_USD) and Scott Rowe (@ScottRowe158) Superintendent of the Huntley Community School District 158 (@Dist158) about their successful transition to remote learning. While buildings are closed in both districts, learning goes on! Lessons from the two leaders include: Be proactive in crisis, do […]
Podcast: Rebecca Midles on Mobilizing Change to Meet Learners Where They Are
[…] was the lead trainer for Reinventing Schools Coalition (now part of Marzano Research) and shared competency strategies with 15 other districts in Alaska and then more broadly. Lindsay USD leaders Tom Rooney (@TomTrooney) and Virgil Hammonds (now KnowledgeWorks) visited Chugach and Highland to learn the Alaskan secrets to competency education. When they applied for a […]
Schools Worth Visiting
[…] thinkers (THINK) who then become agents of change in their communities and world (ACT). Students participate in computer programming, engineering and robotics classes. Competency. Washington Elementary School, Lindsay Unified School District in California’s Central Valley, is a leading example of a personalized and competency-based K-8 school. Every student has a personal learning plan and […]
20 Invention Opportunities in Learning & Development
[…] for new school models (like NewSchoools Venture Fund , Walton’s Innovative Schools Program , and VELA ); ● Sponsored partnerships between competency-based systems and edtech providers (like Lindsay USD and Empower and Latitude High and Headrush ); ● Support for community conversations considering broader outcomes frameworks like Building Blocks from Turnaround and Portrait of a […]
