A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

Whether you lead a district, organization, school, or classroom, you should always strive to get better. During the spring of 2022, I met Nicki Slaugh , who serves as principal, and many of her staff at a school system where we were all there to facilitate professional learning on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL).

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

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. In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. These five points resonate with me. And you know what?

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. 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. Embracing Flexibility?

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

The results of the study pose big questions for reform-minded educators who advocate for students to have multiple chances on exams. The MyLab Math report is one of 12 efficacy studies the company released about one month ago. It can be done before or after practice assignments.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

So when Piedmont is looking for great digital science and social studies programs for its middle school, it’s hard for them to know where to look and what’s out there. WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

However, since the pandemic, our teaching habits have changed and technology has become an intrinsic part of our profession. Even though we may have fully returned to in-person teaching, we’re still using technology in our classes. Add competencies for each class . Create a class syllabus. Handle student enrollments.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

What schools used to teach students, the skills needed in the past and their applicability in real life are no longer suitable in a scientifically and technologically developing world. Read more: Practical applications of Constructivism in the online classroom. 9 Characteristics of authentic learning. Student-directed learning.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Asante Johnson is a technology integration coach and STEM teacher at District of Columbia Public Schools ’ Wheatley Education Campus. Last month, Johnson joined a handful of educators from the League of Innovative Schools on a tour of three public school districts in New Hampshire, a leader in competency-based education.

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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. The role of technology.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. One of the most effective ways to personalize the path and pace of student learning is to build a strong foundation of competency based learning in your classroom or institution.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Teachers shoulder the stress and try our best to ensure that true best practices are used in our classrooms, while at the same time we are often forced to sip the Kool-Aid of the highly-paid consultants du jour in lieu of designing our own professional development. You may be surprised by this list if you aren’t a classroom teacher.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

Moreover, being able to concentrate on a task and avoid distractions ensures that students perform well in the classroom and outside of it. Most LMSs already have the features to help students plan their learning and achieve their goals. This is important since students need these competencies as they transition from school to work.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In recent years, technology has played a significant role in reshaping the landscape of college teaching, and it will surely continue to do so. In this context, educators must be especially mindful that our uses of technology do not undermine meaningful learning. And doing this requires knowledge about technology and teaching.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2019

I also worked hard to keep my students focused and tended to run my classroom like a tight ship. Classroom management didn’t come naturally to me, and I often felt unsuccessful. Believe it or not, “wheel-spinning” is now a technical term and has become a topic of interest to researchers who study how children learn.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Rather than focus on “personalized learning” as a specific thing, the framework it has developed is designed to measure the degree of personalization in the classroom along four dimensions: learner connected, learner focused, learner demonstrated, and learner led. Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning.

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

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! And, we’ll highlight the best examples from across the country on our website for others to learn from.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, April 14, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose digital services support learning wherever it takes place—announced today that its award-winning K-12 learning platform has earned the Learner Variability Product Certification from Digital Promise.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. Smarter Learning Management Systems. We shall see. An example?

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

I had just transitioned back into the classroom at Latin School of Chicago from a job in publishing and this was not the kind of question that I had prepared myself to answer. Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

. “Digital Promise’s Research-Based Design product certification recognizes the edtech products that incorporate research about learning into their design and development. Congratulations to IXL Learning for demonstrating that research informs product design!”

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. Professional Learning (skills, knowledge, theory). With research from the U.S. Organizational Mandates (required trainings).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. Another popular defense of the status quo was that the students needed to learn some “lesson” from the poor grade, such as how to take better notes, study more effectively or work more quickly on a test. We can make mastery the outcome of learning and not a given amount of time in a classroom.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Its biggest divergence has to do with physical structure of where learners and teachers are spending the most time, and the disaggregation of the classroom and modification of the grade groupings.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

Back in the early 1900s, John Dewey promoted the “learning by doing” approach to education, which would later become the foundation of project-based learning (PBL). Some of these topics include agriculture, communication and information studies, human services, and health science.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. In this model, students learn at their level and move on to concepts when they have demonstrated mastery. social justice.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Go further and deeper One of the debates within the emerging practice of competency-based learning is when students master a concept, should they move further ahead in the curriculum or, if they are ahead of the class, go deeper into that concept instead. Sweat the school culture Culture matters more than technology.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Our micro-credentials are stronger, clearer, and get at the heart of the competencies because we can’t rely on our instruction to tee up the evidence of mastery of a particular skill. Enrolling in such a program could provide educators an efficient and more structured way to engage in competency-based learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Our micro-credentials are stronger, clearer, and get at the heart of the competencies because we can’t rely on our instruction to tee up the evidence of mastery of a particular skill. Enrolling in such a program could provide educators an efficient and more structured way to engage in competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. But notably, a cohesive opposition movement has failed to materialize, in part because research on its impact in the classroom has generally been positive (or at least neutral ).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. So we can concentrate on how to teach.”.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. She says students must learn the process for problem solving, which requires more time asking questions before jumping to solutions. .” Why is this so challenging?

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The learning model Dr. Martin presented is known as Competency-Based Learning, and one key aspect is that learners “articulate” their own progress toward competencies. This started with the campus leaders and included book studies and regional trainings with campus teams. Kimberly Hatten, Ed.D.

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

In the face of a nationwide teacher shortage, especially in science, technology, engineering and math, the academy is not the first program that has sought to attract experts in these areas to teaching, but it offers a significant departure from traditional teacher training programs in several other high-tech ways.

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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

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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