Competency-Based Education
It’s Time to Reassess Our Understanding of the 4Cs
David outlines a new vision for the teaching and assessing of 21st century skills that is anchored in cultural awareness and differing ways of expressing competence.
Mastery Learning in Action
Mastery Learning in Action, a paper recently published by the Mastery Transcript Consortium, offers a comparative structure based on visits and interview from five of its member schools.
Linking Global Knowledge, Project-Based Learning and the Pandemic: One School’s Journey
One school takes the opportunity to link project based learning, global competency and the pandemic to create a whole school project that links all subject areas.
Shining the Competency Education Light on Education in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 has created the conditions for a radical transformation in our schools. Chris discusses how personalized, mastery-based, competency, and proficiency-based approaches help teachers and schools.
Getting Through: Multi-Mode Literacy
The instruction of literacy has been thrown into an immediate adaptation to remote teaching. This new, multi-faceted experience of reading, writing and comprehension is Multi-Mode Literacy.
Competency-Based Approaches Focus On Skills, Relevancy and Personalization
Redefining learning outcomes and assessments by applying competency-based approaches will lead to more personalized and relevant learning.
No Excuse Not to Teach Climate Crisis Mitigation and Adaptation
The climate crisis and the rise of artificial intelligence will be the dominant issue in the lives of young people for the next 20 years and we have no excuse not teach them about it.
Show What You Know: A Parent’s Guide to the Global Shift to Competency
Our education system has six big problems, but solutions spurred by global initiates are emerging to tackle these prevalent issues.
Getting Smart on Mastery Learning
As a culmination of our mastery learning series, we have compiled a Smart Bundle that documents the necessary steps to making these mastery systems measurable, effective and scalable.
Moving Toward Mastery Learning: Practical Steps for Making Progress
The education of today is adapting in order to enable learners to meet the future of tomorrow. Mastery learning is a combination of student-centered learning objectives and thresholds supported with strategies that can create powerful, replicable results and provides a plan to meet future education needs.