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New to Competency-Based Learning? Here're Five Ways to Assess It

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According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment.

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Not Just Buzzwords: How Teachers Bring Big Ideas, Innovative Practices to Life

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Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning. I came from a grades-based system,” he said.

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

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In 2015, after working with other tech partners, 2Revolutions decided to build its own social learning platform from scratch. The platform, InspirED , was released in March 2016 and as of summer 2016 it has 28,000 users, some of whom have worked in states or districts that have received design support from 2Revolutions.

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6 tips from personalized learning innovators leading change

eSchool News

The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. This time is helping to prevent burnout and helping teachers learn to let go of what they’ve always done,” he said.

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Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments

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The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state. Allen sees NG2 as a continuation of that trajectory.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

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In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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