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The Professional Development Problem

EdNews Daily

And the way we measure efficacy including standardized testing results, self-reports and competency based learning needs to be considered with student and teacher engagement as a primary determinant of success. Professional Learning is moving toward a competency based approach. With research from the U.S.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

Edsurge

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.”

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Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

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. She did some research and discovered that competency-based education was becoming popular among innovative educators. “How

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. That’s why we’re working with these six districts: to follow along and share what they learn about piloting learning technology tools in classrooms. ” Jerry Snow.

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Do Students, Principals and Superintendents See Eye-to-Eye on Eliminating Grade Levels?

Edsurge

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.

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How 2Revolutions is Helping Schools, Districts, and States Support Future of Learning Models

Edsurge

From 2011 - 2015, 2Rev shifted their work to focus on assisting schools, districts and states with building future of learning models and helping those models succeed and scale. Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as online learning opportunities.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

Edsurge

Jonathan Vander Els, then principal at Memorial (now Executive Director of New Hampshire Learning Initiative ), says teachers began asking questions about how to show growth for habits like self-regulation and cooperation. This observation changed the school’s way of thinking about student success.