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Smart List: 45 Advocacy Orgs Making a Difference

Oct 20, 2014

Today we are recognizing 45 policy and advocacy organizations. These groups put students first, set the path, and lead the conversation.

Personalized Learning

Flexible Learning Time Provides System Approach to Differentiation in a Competency Education School

Guest Author

Oct 14, 2014

Brian Stack, principal of Sanborn Regional High School in New Hampshire shares how developing a flexible learning time each day provides intervention and enrichment for students and how this time has been a key to providing students with the differentiation and personalization needed success in their competency-based system.

Innov8

EdTech 10: Reason to Celebrate

Getting Smart Staff

Oct 10, 2014

This week’s stories signal that innovations in learning that were once small and isolated are starting to ramp up in size, impact and attention. Learners have reason to celebrate this week as opportunity, access, and quality are on the rise.

EdTech

Southern New Hampshire Reshaping Higher Ed Landscape

Tom Vander Ark

Oct 9, 2014

Manchester, New Hampshire may seem like an unlikely place for a revolution but Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) has produced three remarkable innovations that have the potential to reshape the higher ed landscape.

Leadership

Preparing for Conversations with Parents

Chris Sturgis

Oct 7, 2014

Designing conversations with parents about their student's academic levels, pace, and progress in competency-based education and helping parents and their students appreciate the value of personalized learning. emphasis on personalized learning based on where students are in their learning

Personalized Learning

Leave Retention Behind in Favor of Promotion on Mastery

Tom Vander Ark

Oct 3, 2014

The alternative to retention isn’t social promotion - it's mastery. Why competency-based learning is more important than seat time.

Ed Policy

Is it a Teaching Problem or a Design Problem?

Tom Vander Ark

Aug 30, 2014

When principals are evaluating teachers this year and when they don’t see the percentage of grade level proficiency they had hoped for, they should ask, “Is this a teaching problem or a design problem?”

Personalized Learning

Music Education: What Students Want, What the Workforce Needs

Guest Author

Aug 12, 2014

Alexandra Eaton outlines how music education, if utilized in ways that Plato described, can provide more than just an outlet for creativity, but be another tool to prepare students to be college & career ready.

Ed Policy

7 Ways State Policy Can Promote Competence

Tom Vander Ark

Aug 8, 2014

There are seven ways state policy can promote and accelerate the shift to next-generation competency based learning and improve outcomes.

EdTech

EdTech 10: From Ideas to Implementation

Getting Smart Staff

Aug 8, 2014

We love a good continuum, and this week’s top stories reveal a good one. Scan this week’s EdTech 10 for a range of efforts that celebrate the evolution from “idea” to “implementation” and everything in between.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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