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. Whether you lead a district, organization, school, or classroom, you should always strive to get better. There is always work to be done and effective educators embrace this wholeheartedly.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s because earning credit toward a diploma or degree typically requires students to spend a minimum number of hours receiving instruction in the classroom. The goal is to help more young people “lead purposeful lives” by shifting toward competency-based education, says Timothy Knowles, president of the Carnegie Foundation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. Though the flipped class model proved to be an effective strategy in which we saw increases in student achievement and engagement, we only did the traditional flipped classroom for one year. These five points resonate with me.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Innovation in education is a must if we want to keep up with technology and global advancements. There has to be a paradigm shift in our approach to education. Teaching needs to be student-centered, but most of all, it should be based on the graduate profile. Mastery-based learning is a competency-oriented teaching method.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2018

At its heart, personalized learning requires profound shifts in our thinking about education and schooling.” Personalized learning is not a new concept. What has changed, however, is the need and increased capacity to personalize learning, including: A workforce that demands significantly more than mastery of the 3 Rs; 2.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In classrooms, educators continue to grapple with the impacts this is having on both remote and hybrid learning models. So, what does this mean for education? A greater emphasis on productivity in the future of work will require our learners to have a refined set of competencies.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

It’s that a student who earns 60 percent on a test—whether online or in a physical classroom—has not demonstrated that he or she has mastered the course material. The newspaper cites the NCAA requirement that credit-recovery courses be comparable in “length, content and rigor” to those taught in classrooms.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Consider the implications this has for the nature of education in childhood. Children will need to master skills and competencies relevant to this emerging world of work. We often think about competency-based learning as an input—a method of instruction that is mastery based and not time-based.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In most schools across the globe, students leave their classrooms only with the tools teachers provide them, and with the knowledge and skills they acquire throughout their development. Read more: Practical applications of Constructivism in the online classroom. 9 Characteristics of authentic learning. Open-ended inquiry.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The certainty of climate change and likelihood of more pandemics and other large-scale disruptions leave us with questions about what the future of education will look like. We should use this moment to catalyze a digital transformation of education that will prepare schools for our uncertain future.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

It’s no longer a given that if a child spends twelve years in school, he or she will learn enough to succeed in higher education or a career. To address this issue, some educators are taking bold measures to help students. They also designed the infrastructure that supports it and learned some big lessons during implementation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s a novel idea to consider what teachers want in this time of disruption and corporate education reform, which have by most measures failed our public schools. The list I have compiled below is a must read for school boards, parents, grandparents and anyone who cares about having a well-educated society.

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. ” Mahnaz Charania. .

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. 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.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2020

Across classrooms and campuses, teaching and learning may be the core activity observable to the naked eye. Given the myriad ways in which networks shape access to opportunity, the connections students forge in the course of learning experiences are assets we should be paying attention to. Competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Educators shifting to competency-based models often tout to the power of allowing students to master a topic by taking a test again and again until they do well, rather than failing them if they bomb the first time. The philosophy is that such repeated testing will make sure they get to a level where the material truly sinks in.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

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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ExcelinEd

JANUARY 22, 2020

Professional development has the potential to help millions of hardworking teachers cultivate their instructional practice to improve student outcomes. Yet in many districts, this resource fails to produce positive changes in the classroom, despite substantial investments of money and time.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Marianne Beja had been in education for more than 30 years when she discovered personalized learning. I want to build a community of lifelong learners, and I think personalized learning is the way to do it. They'll be running a workshop on navigating the future of learning at EdSurge Fusion. We’re in it for the long haul.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2017

“Higher education innovation” is no different, though instead of flying cars and Mars colonies, what likely comes to mind first are online and competency-based learning platforms, learning management systems, or electronic whiteboards. Stop-gapping is by far the most common “innovation” in higher education.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If you ask a dozen educators to define personalized learning, you’ll no doubt get some enthusiastic answers, and all twelve will probably be different. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Like everything else in education, the devil is in the details. By Charles Sosnik.

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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? Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels.

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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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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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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

In addition to the familiar student teaching routine, for instance, it uses virtual reality avatars to simulate classroom situations and crises. 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.

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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).

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The state of New Hampshire has been gradually shifting toward competency-based education (CBE) for two decades. The changes first impacted high schools, and in the past three years, the model has made its way into K-12 classrooms. They dubbed the behaviors “Work-Study Practices” (WSP).

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Flipped Learning and Higher Education are rarely found together in the same sentence. Perhaps that is the case because the idea of flipped learning is attributed to two high school teachers and is a rather new concept, while stakeholders of Higher Education prefer to refer to it as “ reverse instruction ”. Infographic].

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. The students at M.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

According to a study from Adobe (which an accompanying infographic shown to the right), 82% of college-educated professionals wish they had more exposure to creative thinking as students. When teachers build rubrics with those outcomes in mind, they give students the choice, and, often, they are surprised with what the students can do.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

The only students here now are in photos, like the one of a VLACS graduation ceremony that hangs in a classroom turned conference room. When you think about virtual education, it’s often more about efficiency and getting more students through than it is about relationships,” he said. Those ceremonies are amazing. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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