Career & Technical Ed
Competency-Based Education
Personalized Learning
When Diplomas and Credits Send False Signals
By: Karla Phillips. As goals and expectations for students rise across the nation, our approach to education must change when it comes to determining mastery of content. Parents, students and educators are being misled by inconsistent expectations of proficiency.
Leadership
10 Roles & 7 Recommendations for Leading Toward Deeper Learning
By: Tom Vander Ark & Karen Cator. If we want more students to experience powerful learning, school and district leaders need to benefit from the same blended, competency-based and deeper learning experiences that they seek to create for students.
Ed Policy
The End of the Big Test: Moving to Competency-Based Policy
The use of assessment pilots and innovations zones where groups of schools apply and become authorized to operate alternative assessment systems will soon replace the frustration surrounding NCLB and end of year tests.
Difference Making
Doing It Yourself: From Independent Learning Plans to Organizing Your Instructional Path
By: Chris Sturgis. Through competency-based models students take responsibility and ownership of their journey to a career of their choosing. This is what GenDIY is all about, students creating, designing, and owning their education.
Difference Making
CompetencyEd And Why Everyone Should Learn To Code
By: Melinda Barlow. Why competency-based learning models and learning to code promotes dynamic and flexible exchanges and enables students to think and function in ways that supports greater opportunities for careers.
EdTech
7 Trends That Shaped 2014; 7 Problems We’ll Solve in 2015
There were 7 trends that shaped US education in 2014. Continued progress in the new year will result in solutions to 7 challenges.
Uncategorized
Global Employment Markets Reward Competence & Initiative
The global economy is expanding opportunity for billions but participation demands competence and initiative. Online learning--both formal and informal-- is expanding access to knowledge and skill building.
Leadership
When the Stars Align in Support of Learning…
By: Karla Phillips. A common K-12 and higher education reform effort where the stars can align? Competency-based learning.
Competency-Based Education
Elevate and Empower
A Getting Smart paper & infographic, produced in partnership with Rosetta Stone, explores the potential of world language educators leading the shift to school and district-wide blended, competency-based, deeper learning models. A follow-up to “The Next Generation of World Language Learning.”
Personalized Learning
Infographic | Elevate and Empower: World Language Instructors as Key Players in the Shift to Competency-Based, Blended Learning
New infographic from Getting Smart and Rosetta Stone Education complement the upcoming paper on World Language Instructors as Key Players in the Shift to Competency-Based, Blended Learning.