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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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. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK.

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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 the traditional parent teacher conference as it once was is both redundant and outdated.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.

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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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of skills from other factors, such as behavior.SBG takes on many different forms across the country.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

As Martin describes examples of what a competency-based report card/transcript may look like (in particular, the work of the Mastery Transcript Consortium ), you realize how crucial it is to have an effective reporting tool of learning, especially for high school. Bonus: it includes a DVD with video clips!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

In thinking about how a semirural school district could support equity and opportunity for kids, they talked a lot about personalized and competency-based learning. The driving philosophy now is that all students should achieve certain learning outcomes and the school day should be built around helping them do so.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The state department partnered with KnowledgeWorks in early 2018 to support districts with varying degrees of interest in personalized learning, from those who were already years into transforming their systems to those just getting started. The schools we’re working with, they report what they’ve implemented, and it’s beyond amazing.

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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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Over the past three years, with experimentation and many conversations, my students and I have worked together to develop a system of learning that values transparency, fairness, collaboration and feedback—and we've got the data to support that it’s improving student engagement. Then I ask my students to make meaning of it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning. We’re also working to report on students’ mastery of skills with progress levels, rather than a traditional report card at the end of each semester.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. Many initiatives that participants discussed came from a few early innovators trying new approaches within their systems.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Perhaps the disappearance (and reported murder) of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi doesn’t seem like an education technology story. “ Montana vote becomes a national referendum on public confidence in higher ed ,” says The Hechinger Report. ” Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies. .”

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Throughout the year, Two Rivers holds four student-led, parent-teacher conferences. Heyck-Williams says these conferences help families understand the grading system, as students sit down with the data to discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Stakeholders beyond the community.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. Sanborn Regional School District immediately saw the benefits of a competency-based system and began experimenting with the model.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2018

The day-long Global Leadership Summit, co-hosted by ASCD and the Global Education Conference Network, will convene classroom teachers, school and district administrators, and thought leaders in an interactive and engaging program. Many Thanks to Our Sponsors At Participate , we believe learning has no limits.

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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. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The growth of “Course Choice” initiatives in various states was chronicled in depth by The Hechinger Report last year, in this story from our archives. — I don’t see one system as better than the other; they’re just very different,” White said. Read more about blended learning. Read more about blended learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The day-long Global Leadership Summit, co-hosted by ASCD and the Global Education Conference Network, will convene classroom teachers, school and district administrators, and thought leaders in an interactive and engaging program. Many Thanks to Our Sponsors At Participate , we believe learning has no limits.

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