Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. And the programs don’t come with the kind of data our teachers want for the competency-based learning approach we’re taking. So we want to try something new.”

Robotics 120

Robotics Education Competency Based Learning Program Evaluation 120

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

Classroom 215

Classroom Learning Company Assessment 215

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. By 2015, Taymore decided she needed a system with an organizing principle. MELROSE, Mass.

Competency Based Learning 117

Competency Based Learning Learning Elementary Report 117

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.

Assessment 82

Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 82

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

In fact, for superintendent Dr. Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

Competency Based Learning 85

Competency Based Learning Policies Common Core Elementary 85

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.”

Khan Academy 46

Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46