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. This time is helping to prevent burnout and helping teachers learn to let go of what they’ve always done,” he said.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The schools we’re working with, they report what they’ve implemented, and it’s beyond amazing. Source: KnowledgeWorks Personalized Learning Resources. They'll be running a workshop on navigating the future of learning at EdSurge Fusion. All you need to do is register for the conference and then grab your spot in their workshop.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By far, one of the most popular topics at the iNACOL conference in San Antonio last week was “competency-based learning"; out of the conference's approximately 200 sessions, 35 had the phrase in their title. . What exactly is competency-based learning? And who did he choose to lead it?

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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. We’ve always felt like it works,” he explains of Berthold’s assessment model.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Academic skills were assessed continually and frequently throughout the year, while CARES skills were assigned a competency level once a trimester on a report card. We saw Andy Calkins speak at a conference about MyWays in the summer of 2015 and we practically rushed the stage to talk to him afterward,” Hume-Howard laughs.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. In 2011, Jim Shank, the superintendent then, spearheaded a one-to-one iPod program, seeing the promise of technology as a means of giving students targeted academic support.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

After reading “The Power of Feedback,” a research report by John Hattie and Helen Timperley, we concluded that frequent and focused feedback was the key to empowering students to take charge of their learning. If it’s unreasonable, we have a quick conference to sort it out.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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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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. Read more about Blended Learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Last week a group promoting CBE, the nonprofit Competency-Based Education Network, released a new report that it hopes can be a roadmap for making a coordinated push to grow adoption and acceptance of the education model. But that still leaves thousands of colleges with no competency-based program.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Perhaps the disappearance (and reported murder) of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi doesn’t seem like an education technology story. Via The Hechinger Report : “Experts call for an end to online preschool program s.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. 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.

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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. — This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about blended learning.

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