Competency Based Learning Conference Information Report 
Edsurge
MAY 8, 2017
As a former New York City high school teacher, I know that parent-teacher conferences seldom provide parents with enough time to process what their children learned, what they’re interested in, and what needs improvement. Talk about what's being learned, not what's missing. Here’s our wall of work.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 13, 2021
Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. And Daniel A.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 11, 2016
We’re about a third of the way into the school year and we know what that means: The dread of parent teacher conferences! But conferences would not make it on my Top Ten Reasons I Like to Teach list. the traditional parent teacher conference as it once was is both redundant and outdated. Skype your conference.
MindShift
JULY 9, 2015
If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. Competency-based learning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 5, 2016
One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 11, 2017
We hope to share some of these examples at the SXSW and SXSW EDU conferences in March 2018 – but first, we need your help. Anyone can vote for a proposed panel through SXSW’s PanelPicker process, whether you plan to attend the conference or not, once you create a free PanelPicker account. Competency-based Learning In Your District.
Edsurge
MARCH 17, 2018
Some of these topics include agriculture, communication and information studies, human services, and health science. With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning.
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