The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 10, 2020
Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Melanie Acevedo was a teacher during the 2014-15 school year when Taymore tapped her for an exploratory committee to research the model and its results. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.
Edsurge
APRIL 4, 2017
But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them. They dubbed the behaviors “Work-Study Practices” (WSP).
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 3, 2016
After clawing his way through college, however, he had a distinguished career in education — first as a middle school science teacher (where he and Bette met), then as a long-time member and chair of New Hampshire’s state board of education, and now as president of the nonprofit National Center for Competency-Based Learning.
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