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Harmonizing with Microcredentials: 7 Steps to Reimagining Your School’s Professional Learning
In this final piece of the series, we summarize how Harmony Public Schools reinvented professional learning for their staff by putting the educator at the center and building a career pathways program awarding relevant and realistic microcredentials to in-service teachers and administrators.
Change Management at Harmony Public Schools: When Prior Innovations Become Status Quo
By: Burak Yilmaz. Through the development of a competency-based microcredential system, Harmony Public Schools has become a place where all educators with a growth mindset can thrive.
Finding Your Entry Point to Mastery Learning
Chris shares two questions and two resources to help find your entry point to mastery learning.
Meet the Culture Hackers: Microcredentials Aren’t Just for Students
By: Robert Thornton. Harmony Public Schools takes a competency-based approach to professional learning by awarding microcredentials to reinforce the skill-sets they believe are critical to success across a variety of roles within their system.
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.
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.
Competency Tracking Tools Are Overdue
It’s time for modern solutions for schools trying to develop the 2030 workforce.
Defining and Measuring the ‘Personal’ in Personalized Learning
Many districts find themselves caught between the structures of schooling and the ideals of learning. The solution may lie in how they define and measure the 'personal' aspects of personalized learning.
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.
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.