A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 16, 2022
A recent visit to Quest Academy Junior High School, where I began longitudinal work on personalized competency-based learning (PCBL), got me thinking more deeply about this strategy. The example I provided here is just one, but Google “exit tickets” and you’ll see a number of examples. Don’t reinvent the wheel.
A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 5, 2023
During the spring of 2022, I met Nicki Slaugh , who serves as principal, and many of her staff at a school system where we were all there to facilitate professional learning on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL). Rubrics were everywhere and accessible in Google Classroom.
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eSchool News
AUGUST 29, 2016
Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. All too often, new approaches to instruction are designed in isolation from the teachers who will be implementing those approaches.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 1, 2021
But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? Listen on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music , or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player on this page. How is that part going? Can you write well?
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2017
Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. Distinctive Schools network, we have been on a journey implementing personalized learning that takes a competency based approach.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2017
Mary Earick, project director for NG2, says the purpose of the program is to create more flexible learning pathways for students through “competency-based multiage schooling,” which allows students to move on to new objectives only after mastering others. “[NG2]
Tech Helpful
MARCH 27, 2017
I remember googling "5 oceans of the world" and one of the first hits was the actual worksheet she was doing all filled in by a teacher. Out of curiosity I just now googled the same question and in 1.75 No longer is it just facts that can be googled but also opinions of other students across the world. I said "wow!" 42 seconds.
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