Competency-Based Education
Ed Policy
Smart List: 40 Advocacy Orgs Making a Difference
Today we are recognizing 40 great policy and advocacy organizations. These groups put students first, set the path, and lead the conversation.
Innov8
EdTech 10: Summer Off? No way!
Teachers this summer are soaking up more than sunshine! We’ve noticed that our recent posts with teaching resources are making their way around the internet faster than a barefoot kid running across hot pavement!
Personalized Learning
Changing to a Competency Based Grading System: A Student View
My New Hampshire high school made the shift to a competency-based grading and reporting system two years ago. Educators who talk to me about that experience often want to know what that change process looked like from a student’s perspective.
Ed Policy
Achieve Releases State Framework For Competency-Based Education
Achieve, the leading advocate for college- and career-ready standards, posted an important policy resources this week: Advancing Competency-Based Pathways to College and Career Readiness: A State Policy Framework for Graduation Requirements, Assessment and Accountability. Competency-based education has been part of Achieve’s strategic plan for a few years, but this report is the most important action to date.
Personalized Learning
NGLC Makes 8 Launch and 30 Planning Grants for Next-Gen High Schools
Next Generation Learning Challenges announced another round of grants today: 8 pre-opening grants of $450k and 30 planning grants of $100k.
Leadership
Big Picture: Student-Centered & Competency-Based Learning
Radical personalization is the core innovation of the Big Picture school model--it was flex before we knew what to call it. Their approach to internships remains a best practice. Twenty years after Littky’s groundbreaking work at Thayer, the rest of us are finally talking about student-centered competency-based learning.
Uncategorized
Considering Competency-Based Education
The shift from time to learning, from cohorts to competency, will be tough. It’s not easy or superficial--it’s a new and different way of organizing schools.
Personalized Learning
New Tools for Next-Gen Schools from NGLC & iNACOL
RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K-12 Next Generation Learning is a new toolkit for navigating blended and competency-based learning brought to you through a partnership between iNACOL and NGLC.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Busting Myths & Taking Names
This week we’re blushing here at Getting Smart. How exciting to appear on the 2013 Honor Roll of Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs alongside many of our own favorites. Looking to beef up your summer blog reading? Check out Teach 100’s Daily Ranking of Education Blogs, where we’re honored to rank in the Top 50. Speaking of rankings, here's this week's Top Ten.
Personalized Learning
10 Trends in K-12 Online Learning
Online learning is growing rapidly in K-12 and powering an even larger movement to blended learning. This list of the 10 top trends in K-12 online learning is headlined by rapid school district adoption of online learning strategies and ends with their opposition to the growth of virtual charter schools.