The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

State leaders from Utah to Michigan to North Carolina are getting more involved in figuring out how to support the expansion of personalized, competency-based learning, she said, although it’s too early to decipher how much of the stimulus money flowing to school districts will go toward these efforts.

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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 139

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

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.

Competency Based Learning 52

Competency Based Learning Education Blended Learning Common Core 52

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. Parents couldn’t really look at it unless they were in the library for parent-teacher conferences or whatever. How to get started.

EdTech 175

EdTech Tools Libraries Google 175

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. How was I going to give up so much control and ownership of education to them when I couldn’t get them to follow the directions that I was trying to get them to do?” MELROSE, Mass. she wondered.

Competency Based Learning 115

Competency Based Learning Learning Elementary Report 115

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

Professional Learning 168

Professional Learning Competency Based Learning Company Twitter 168

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

The previous summer, I started the Physics By Inquiry Summer Institute at the University of Washington, a three-year program where teachers learn how to run an inquiry-based classroom by engaging in inquiry-based learning themselves. If it’s unreasonable, we have a quick conference to sort it out.

Data 161

Data Classroom Strategy Student Engagement 161

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It is burdensome and takes big chunks of time away from learning. At conferences on education policy and innovation we have heard the system referred to as an “albatross” and the “tail that wags the dog.” A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems.

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System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2019

discussed how the approach had worked successfully in the Futures Academy network of schools. 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. Application to Professional Learning.

Professional Learning 40

Professional Learning Competency Based Learning Industry Assessment 40

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

Learning 181

Learning Course Company Competency Based Learning 181

Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2018

How did you choose the right system for your district? Employers talk a lot about how millennials lack soft skills, how this generation doesn’t know how to interact with people. Resources for educators , including activity plans and how-to videos. Funding sources for zSpace learning labs.

Robotics 161

Robotics Secondary Industry Case Study 161

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). Through examinations of classroom surveys such as Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up , the Flipped Learning Global Initiative estimates that around 16 percent of U.S. I said, ‘Look, here’s what I expect you to learn, and here’s everything you need to learn it.

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Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 138

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. To address the issue, Hanover said educators from Roots will be attending a workshop this week on how to support students with trauma in a personalized learning approach.

Personalized Learning 60

Personalized Learning iLearn Learning Dropout 60

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Jonathan Vander Els, then principal at Memorial (now Executive Director of New Hampshire Learning Initiative ), says teachers began asking questions about how to show growth for habits like self-regulation and cooperation. This observation changed the school’s way of thinking about student success.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 81

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. Peter Thiel.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

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. VLACS’s founder and CEO, Steve Kossakoski, sat for an interview earlier this spring in the conference room with the graduation photo. Still, they seek each other out. Those ceremonies are amazing.

Education 0

Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The glossy document was released here at the Competency-Based Education Network’s annual conference, where it was handed out to attendees and informed the themes of many sessions. But that still leaves thousands of colleges with no competency-based program. We just broke the system.

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Education Conference System Report 110