Designing Competency-Based Models for Students by Students
[…] is whether or not they can actualize their skills when they are ready to move on to college or a career. The Growth Framework, a durable skills competency-based model designed and tested by One Stone, includes a holistic portrait of a graduate (Bold Learning Objectives) and a college-approved learner record, the Growth Transcript. The […]
Khan World School – One Year Later
[…] promises to improve personalizing learning, provide every student with a learning coach and free up time for educators to build stronger relationships with young people. Mastery and competency-based approaches are gaining momentum as states and districts seek to move from time-based credit to skill-based credit in an attempt to improve outcomes for students. Finally, […]
Finding Your Entry Point to Mastery Learning
I receive a few emails every week from educators who want to find out how to get started down the path of competency-based education. The pandemic’s demand for flexibility has increased these calls for help. Most everyone has read the CompetencyWorks blogs, they’ve tackled a few of the books that have been written, they’ve […]
Technology We Need: Documenting the complete Learner Record
[…] address these functionalities. Greenlight Credentials, Area9Lyceum, Mastery Transcript, HeadRush Learning, Empower, LiFT Learning, See Saw, and Building 21’s SLATE all hold promise. If Portrait’s of Graduates supported by competency-based progressions are to become widespread, then we need to build solutions that accommodate these changes. If not, the efforts will languish in inadequate LMS systems, complicated […]
Student Voice and Co-Leadership: What They Mean to Students
[…] my passions and interests in a space that has encouraged my individuality and innovative thinking. I have discovered my love of advocating for diverse, relationship-driven, project-based and competency-based education, and want to continue to reshape the traditional high school curriculum norms that are still so heavily enforced in our society today. A pivotal point […]
Sneakers, Signals, and Systems: A New Era in Education
[…] Signaling a New Era: Beyond Carnegie Units In some cases, our learning systems are moving beyond traditional metrics like the Carnegie unit. The focus is now on competency-based personalized learning, where students demonstrate mastery through authentic, project-based experiences. The future of education lies in embracing holistic assessment frameworks, reimagining reporting mechanisms, and activating what […]
Get the F Out
[…] Your school board and state board will probably give you more flexibility than you imagine. Eliminate Failure With a Shift to Competency The longer-term solution is a competency-based system where failure is not an option–it just means “not yet.” Competency systems make learning targets clear, they empower individual progress based on demonstrated mastery, and […]
Eight Ways New Schools Innovate
[…] 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. Design 39 […]
Trends Shaping Education in 2022
[…] by actual employers, all while receiving high school and college credit.” Team Tools and Staffing After a hundred years of teaching as an individual practice, personalized and competency-based learning has been creating the need to work in teams. Next Education Workforce at ASU Fulton Teachers College has been advancing team-based preparation and staffing in Arizona […]
Five Tips to Creating Equitable Learning Ecosystems
[…] Amy Anderson 1. Don’t expect schools to be solely responsible for bundled learning Many of the conversations I participate in with my education peers around bundling and competency-based learning focus on how school systems can support young people to access learning that occurs within and beyond schools and then how to validate these experiences […]
