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What’s the Difference Between Project- and Challenge-Based Learning, Anyway?

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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. Cator’s organization has tried to brand CBL as challenge-based learning.) Department of Education.

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

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Competency and mastery-based evaluations often require more work from teachers, more self-motivation from students, and less certainty when it comes to the college application process. So how to reap the benefits of competency-based education and make sure parents, teachers and other stakeholders are on board?

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Do Students, Principals and Superintendents See Eye-to-Eye on Eliminating Grade Levels?

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Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

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Three student-centered strategies. How to integrate social emotional learning —plus a guide to SEL. How to implement blended learning —plus a guide to blended learning. Resources from Kiddom. Kiddom's student experience. Curriculum development for self-paced instruction. Edtech requires student buy-in too.

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Competency-Based Education: A Reading Journey

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course. Often the same book did both! Stack and Jonathan G.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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Snoopy Snow Brawl is a multi-player coding game that encourages kids to use problem solving, strategy and algorithms in a snowball fight between Woodstock and his bird friends that Snoopy referees. Other features and functionality include interactive puzzles, word-free block based programming, different stages for all learners, and more.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

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Ocon describes lesson plans that were based around presenting content and then giving quizzes and tests at predetermined intervals. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something. A student who failed came away with little understanding of how to improve. Ocon looked for an alternative approach.

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