A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

Truth be told, when it comes to education, there is no perfection, no matter where quantitative and qualitative metrics reside. There is always work to be done and effective educators embrace this wholeheartedly. Many factors, such as fear and comfort, can lead us in this direction. Why are our practices effective or not?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. The school’s computer-based approach could be replicated across the state if education reformers appointed by Gov. Students who excel move on.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Competency-based education is one of those big ideas about how to reshape education that’s been around for a while. The basic idea of competency-based education, or CBE, is this: What if the way to get a degree or certificate was to prove to a college that you’ve learned the required knowledge and skills.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

One of the biggest reasons for my growth as an educator has been competency-based learning. So last year, when my district revamped their professional learning strategy with a competency-based focus, micro-credentials naturally played a big part.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Grades will appear in the grade book so you won’t have missing papers. Otherwise, you can create an offline assignment such as reading a book, and grade them once students complete the offline task. Read more: What is the role of rubrics in performance-based education? You can leave feedback for assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

High school seniors have worried about how virtual learning will impact their grade-point averages as they apply for college; students working full time — because their families need the additional financial support during the pandemic — or caring for ill family members have struggled to stay focused on school at all.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

Students and parents learn from the syllabus what to expect from your class and you can give them more details about what you’ll include in your lessons. Add competencies for each class . Competency-based learning helps you track student progress and identify learning gaps. Add assignments in advance.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Here’s a quick exercise for those in education: What do the letters CBL stand for? For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Department of Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

In Paul Tough’s new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering “noncognitive”—or character—abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom. In today’s system, time is held as a constant and each student’s learning is variable. As a result, they develop major holes in their learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. So, if you can imagine reading a book on Kindle, the finished product you can actually flip through like a book. Mandy: Yeah, right.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Since the beginning of the pandemic, American education has experienced a seismic upheaval. For the first time in close to 100 years, many students are learning in environments apart from schools. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

“Those weekly face-to-face sessions are as much about seeing people’s faces—seeing how tired they look, seeing how engaged they are in the material, seeing all of those kinds of things, and having that back and forth—as it is learning new content together,” she noted. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s easy to get excited about the virtues of mastery, or competency-based, learning. What’s not to like about a system that guarantees that students learn, as opposed to one that is focused on the amount of time students sit in seats? Were this our current education system, he would have received a grade — perhaps a C.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But he’s not done trying to bring big changes to higher education. But there's this new distance education thing, and if you want to keep your preferred provider status, you have to start offering that. And at their height, these for-profits educated 12 percent of all American college students. But nature abhors a vacuum.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

While debate about professional development expands, educator hopes for feeling supported are shrinking. We can be hopeful that the connection between teacher training and student learning seems to be realized and now what’s needed is to find the right formula for improving this crucial component of school culture.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. average and they do even better than their peers in similarly wealthy school districts, according to the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

I was working in the trenches of the most confrontational aspect of education reform, trying to get laws passed to authorize vouchers, charter schools, tax-credits scholarships and education savings accounts. Professor Christensen was planning to apply the disruptive lens to social issues and education was his first priority.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Such experiences are all too common for transfer students like Kevin, and many others, who we interviewed as we conducted research for our book “ Choosing College.” Thirty-eight percent of first-time students transfer schools within their first six years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

With a 56-year generation-spanning career as an educator, Mrs. Adkins approaches her 90th birthday still teaching, loving kids, and riding over 100 miles on her bike each week. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. Vicki: Yes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To develop mastery , students must acquire foundational skills, practice using them together, and know when to apply what they have learned. Learning is contextual. Generalizing learning to new contexts (what education researchers call transfer) requires facilitation. There would always be students who didn’t earn an A.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s Time For Personalized Learning In Education. by Michael Horn , Executive Director of Education at Innosight Institute and co-author of Disrupting Class. In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

I had effectively created the conditions necessary for my students to self-advocate, which, as I would later learn, meant parent-teacher conferences would be less of a performance review. Create conditions for students to self-advocate I set a minimum expectation for myself to keeping my grade book up-to-date on a daily basis.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

This experiment, just getting under way, is called the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning, named for the foundation that is underwriting it. Related: Will a one-year residency better prepare aspiring educators for a new style of teaching? Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Shifting from an industrial-age education model to a post-industrial learner-centered model is an essential part of preparing students for college and 21 st century careers, and the process works best when the learner-centered approach is applied to the professional learning of teachers and administrators, as well as the education of their students.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Network Teachers .

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 27, 2017

I remember buying Jessica this huge Atlas that was a bound book. Educational technology was not even a strong game at that point. What does this mean to education? With educational technology comes faster access to information and opinions. When do we, as educators, ask easily Googleable questions?

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

As Shelby County 's journey toward competency-based education (CBE) has become regionally and nationally known, educators often ask about resources we have discovered along the way. In particular, what books have we read? Often the same book did both!

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2018

Paid registration is required [link] About the Summit In a time of increased cultural diversity, global connectivity, and polarization of perspectives, how can leaders in classrooms, schools, districts, and education policy arenas support students with the competencies to thrive in college, careers, and as citizens in diverse communities?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

Ed note: This post is promoted by SEU’s Master of Education program, who asked to write about how learning is changing, and let you know about their Master of Education and Educational Leadership program, which can you read more about here. Lecture likely has a place in education. Learning Models.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

For example, giving students money for every book they read is just as ineffective as chastising them for not reading. That is why the self-determination theory (SDT) seeks to explain how students can become better learners through three core concepts: autonomy, relatedness, and competence. Autonomy in learning. Conclusion.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Educational institutions need to keep up. No matter if we’re talking about kindergartens, elementary schools, high schools or colleges and universities, the need for a learning platform that offers personalized learning experiences for each student is all too real. But with the help of educational technologies, things change.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

Here are six top trends for educators, parents, and policymakers to understand. Parent power The bigger trend is that parents are feeling much more empowered to make choices about their children’s education. A big question for this movement will be the sustainability of the supply of microschools and other educational options.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The shift came to the school ahead of a statewide deadline to have proficiency-based graduation requirements in place for all of Vermont’s 2020 high school graduates. The requirements came as part of a broader effort to make education in Vermont more student-centered, with an emphasis on customization, flexibility and project-based work.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2022

When our district began its journey into competency-based education (CBE), one of the significant early steps was the publication of our Profile of a Graduate (PoG) in 2017. The Profile was crucial in developing our current Strategic Leadership Plan for 2018-2022, where Personalized Learning is the top strand.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

One of the most popular topics these days in education is mastery learning—the idea that the pace of a class should match what each student is ready to learn, as a way to ensure they’re really grasping material. That typically went into the grade book, but the other part was those conversations.

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