Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning. For us, it starts by marrying the traditional, content-driven coursework with performance-based assessment. For example, one student did an organic gardening activity for a restaurant.

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techlearning

MAY 29, 2018

In addition, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that has started to move to competency-based learning. We started by marrying the traditional, content-driven course work with performance-based assessment.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Many investors, foundations and even private equity firms have started so-called impact investment funds with a mission to support companies involved in teaching and learning. In 2016, Lumina launched a venture capital arm to make direct investments in education companies. Now there’s a growing focus on competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

But the Office of Educational Options at BCPS works hard with its teachers to keep standards high so that students are not merely recovering credits to graduate, but also learning. For example, in one English project, teacher ask students to choose a contemporary problem of interest to them.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By far, one of the most popular topics at the iNACOL conference in San Antonio last week was “competency-based learning"; out of the conference's approximately 200 sessions, 35 had the phrase in their title. . What exactly is competency-based learning? Check out Competency Works' description here.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Using the second/third grade pod as an example, Allen explains how two teachers start their morning together with a group of nearly 58 students who work on their own tablet devices. Each student is assigned an individualized learning schedule that involves group work or one-on-one interventions with a teacher.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

For example, Donna Vallese, a former principal at Nowell Leadership Academy, a public charter school in Rhode Island, said she never told teachers they had to use certain tools like Google Classroom. 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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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In 2012, Maine passed a law requiring that by 2018 all students would graduate with a proficiency-based diploma; the law then went through a major update in 2015-2016. If, for example, a school has transitioned to a 4-point rubric scale and assigned a “3” as being proficient, I ask the question: what happens when a student gets a 2?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We have a huge problem when we have a system that’s standardized on an average pace,” Rose explained, while displaying an example of how one student in a test case performed: 1) in a timed environment versus 2) at his/her own pace. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let’s think about it through the lens of project-based learning. Teacher Sets the Standards, Student Chooses the Project As you get ready for the new 2016-2017 school year, you wonder—where does one start? Some other examples that could be technology-or-not include: Timeline. Artwork based on a scene of the story.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a city that recorded 762 murders in 2016, the most in the nation , security measures like these were authorized years ago for every public high school. In a history class, for example, imagine two students taking a test based on a chapter reading on the Vietnam War. Both get a D, implying a similar lack of understanding.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

For example, in Minnesota, which began allowing part-time online enrollment in 2006, roughly 1 percent (5,520) of the state’s secondary school students enrolled during the 2013-14 school year, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. They want them at school learning. Most parents want their kids to go to school.

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