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Competency-Based Education
From the State House to the Classroom: How Policymakers Can Help Bring Competency-Based Education Into Reality
Wyoming’s big shift towards competency-based education (CBE) isn’t just a policy milestone - it’s an opportunity to examine partnership-based approaches to implementing CBE.
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Future of Learning
A Reliable Hybrid Learning Model: Cedar Rapids Schools Respond to Setbacks
[…] hybrid scheduling guidelines established, Cedar Rapids could turn their attention to making adjustments to instruction. CRCSD was already pursuing a goal to gradually shift to a personalized, competency-based learning model. Prior to the pandemic, the team took cues from schools like Summit Public Schools and began adapting those ideas to the upper grades initially, then […]
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Competency-Based Education
From Pandemic to Possibility: Now is the Time to Consider Competency-Based Education
By: B. Owens & J. Lee. The inequities exposed by the pandemic have forced educators to rethink their learning plan. Competency-based learning is helping to meet the needs of all students.
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Difference Making
Schools Alive With Possibility
[…] upskilling pathways with the potential for high wage employment. Most of these pathways feature skills credentialing and, while primarily accessed informally, they are a sign of personalized competency-based learning. The pandemic accelerated the great unbundling of learning, an explosion of resources, some open, some free, some assigned, some discovered. A few resources, like Khan Academy, offer […]
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Future of Learning
Eight Ways New Schools Innovate
With the rapid global shift to hybrid and remote learning, there is a renewed interest in new school models. Highlighted are eight ways schools are innovating.
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Leadership
From Last Chance to First Choice: Alternative Schools That Show the Way Forward
[…] each semester (see feature). John J. Cairns High School is an alternative school in Lindsay Unified School District in the Central Valley of California. The district is a leader in competency-based learning and supports this focus with project-based learning and Big Picture’s Leaving to Learn internships (see learner goals). Health Leadership High School in Albuquerque prepares young people to become […]
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Future of Learning
The Future of High School
[…] University Charter School in Alabama implement pathway programs in partnership with universities that focus on regional employment needs such as health care, education, manufacturing and entrepreneurship. Personalized and competency-based approaches. We know that 1:1 tutoring and voice/choice in experience and pace lead to stronger outcomes. Meeting every learner where they are at the right time, with […]
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Personalized Learning
A Platform to Support Competency-Based PBL
It’s hard to support and manage project-based learning in a competency-based environment. In this post, Erik Day shares a look at a platform designed to help.
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Future of Learning
Five Building Blocks in the New Architecture of High Schools
[…] to be passed, teams leading innovative high schools ask, “What’s the best way to develop and demonstrate important competencies?” Schools personalizing learning and moving to mastery or competency-based learning models often use five linked learner experience systems to promote growth on learning goals: skill-building, projects, immersion, advisory, and out-of-school learning. Each system has unique learner […]
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Competency-Based Education
Using OER to Increase Collaboration, Relevance, and Engagement
[…] those changes. The Texas Learning Exchange curated an OER library to help educators find and use high quality and free resources to support meaningful learning anywhere, anytime. Competency-Based Assessment A standardized or traditional education system is designed to move kids along a certain path at a certain period of time and often ignores the […]
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