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

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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. Does it work?

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Looking to Ditch Traditional Grades? Here’s How to Get Stakeholders On Board

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We’re doing things that are a little radical but still grounded in academic standards. . He says at Two Rivers, they’ve rooted evaluations in standards—Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards—and that helps gets teachers invested. “We’ve always felt like it works,” he explains of Berthold’s assessment model.

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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

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At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king. They include not just academic standards, but several teacher-selected “habits”: responsibility, curiosity, creativity, and self-improvement. In other words, SEL competencies.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

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Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding.

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Learning Impact Conference Report: How Can We Create More Seamless Digital Ecosystems?

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At the IMS Global Learning Impact conference this week (#LILI2018), there were dozens of sessions covering the many ways interoperability is helping data play well together to create more user-friendly digital ecosystems.

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

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STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING Another term for personalized learning, but tending to emphasize the needs of individual students rather than the goals of the teacher, school or district. MASTERY-BASED LEARNING Another term for competency-based learning.