Competency-Based Education
Show What You Know: A Landscape Analysis of Competency-Based Education
Our new report, commisioned and published today by XQ, provides an in-depth look at the current status of competency-based education in the U.S., barriers impeding its adoption, and reflections on some of the more complex transition issues.
CBE Supports at the School, Teacher and Student Levels
Getting Smart will soon be part of a panel at the iNACOL Symposium that will focus on competency-based education, and will also be part of a release of a forthcoming report on the topic. This post highlights a brief selection of our findings.
Starting Career Education in Middle School
American Student Association is changing the way they approach young people by helping students know themselves.
Mastery Week: 13 Resources for Assessment in CBE Environments
Looking for a way to assess learning in competency-based environments? Here are 13 valuable resources to get you started.
On Breaking Convention
We owe it to the next generation to get them ready--both for how to cope with all the convention breaking but also a framework for how & when they should break convention.
4 Ways to Promote Student Accountability
By Erin Werra. Students need skills like accountability to be ready for the future. Here are four ways educators can encourage and support accountability
Building 21: Designing a Network for Competency-Based Education
By: Chip Linehan. Building 21's vision is to create a deep network of like-minded schools and districts that seek to fundamentally rethink high school graduation requirements to reflect the changing world around us. Learn more here.
35 Competency-Based Education Advocacy & Research Organizations
The organizations discussed in this post are interesting and forward-leaning groups moving the needle forward in terms of our collective understanding of what competency education is, and what it could be.
40 Competency-Based Education Publications and Resources
We've been hard at work researching the landscape of competency-based education (CBE). The resources highlighted in this post contain valuable, thought-provoking ideas that are helpful in understanding what CBE is, how to communicate about it, and how to plan for it.
The ‘Show Me’ Grading System of the Future
Changing the way we grade, report and evaluate student learning can oftentimes feel like an uphill battle. But our students deserve better. This post contains some useful steps and food for thought to plan for progress in that direction.