Competency-Based Education
Personalized Learning
How Can We Truly Meet Students Where They Are At?
Competency-based education is a system of instruction where students advance to higher levels of learning when they demonstrate mastery of concepts and skills. In this setting, learning doesn’t rely on time, place or pace.
EdTech
Next-Gen Advisory For Dropout Prevention
Advisory programs help students stay engaged in their learning process, develop agency and create a personalized plan for their education that will keep them in school and on the path to college, career and life success.
Future of Learning
Building Competencies for Future Careers
The new report Building Competencies for Careers shares key findings of an analysis done by the Center on Education Policy around the knowledge, skills, abilities and work styles today's students need to learn for future career success.
Leadership
School Consortium Proposes a Better Transcript
For well over a century we've recorded the high school experience as a series of courses and grades, showing activity but not necessarily growth and accomplishment. Here is how the Mastery Transcript Consortium is working to change this approach for the better.
Competency-Based Education
15 Dimensions of Personalized Learning
It is easy to think of personalization simply as differentiated instruction, but a full commitment to supporting individual learning journeys has many dimensions such as these 15 we've identified.
Competency-Based Education
Measure, Verify, and Signal Any Skill with Degreed’s New Skill Certification
It’s a show-what-you-know world where demonstrated skills are becoming as valuable--in some cases, more valuable--than traditional degrees. Here's what Degreed is doing to change how we measure skills.
Leadership
Impact Report: Building Capacity for Personalized Learning and More
Education Elements recently released its third annual Impact Report, "Building Capacity for Personalized Learning and More," examining the impact of personalized learning on districts across the country. Here are highlights of what they found.
Future of Learning
Creating Tomorrow’s Moonshot Thinkers
By: Justin Aglio and Esther Wojcicki. Students in the Montour School District will enter an exciting new school building this year focused on "creating a culture of moonshot thinkers.”
Future of Work
Getting Smart Podcast | KnowledgeWorks On Redefining Readiness
On this episode of the podcast, Katherine Prince, Senior Director of Strategic Foresight at KnowledgeWorks, discusses the future of learning and what it means to redefine readiness from the inside out.
Competency-Based Education
Smart Review | MasteryTrack: Powering Competency-Based Learning
Mastery-based progression is challenging to consistently define much less track. The newly debuted MasteryTrack, a free online mastery-based dashboard system, is designed to solve these challenges.