A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

Over the years, the state of Utah has provided me with a plethora of opportunities to work with schools on Personalized Competency-Based Learning ( PCBL ). This is a skill they will definitely need in their future! Self-regulation is a hallmark of personalized learning. Understanding self-regulated learning.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2019

A 2017 Medium post from the Office of Educational Technology laments the lack of clarity about the term “personalized learning”: “The lack of a consistent definition and language for a relatively complex idea has hampered both understanding and effective ­implementation,” the article states. by David Hutchins.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

The event was hosted by Phill Bevan, Community Advisor at VETR , a digital learning community for the Australian vocational education and training sector. Phill and Graham had a wonderful conversation on the topic of e-learning and explored six key digital learning trends that are reshaping the EdTech landscape.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While all 50 state education departments have created CS and CT standards, not all districts are actively and systematically implementing such computing standards across their schools. Districts must create pathways that meet the unique needs and contexts of their learning environments, students and broader community.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

One of the biggest reasons for my growth as an educator has been competency-based learning. So last year, when my district revamped their professional learning strategy with a competency-based focus, micro-credentials naturally played a big part.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Asante Johnson is a technology integration coach and STEM teacher at District of Columbia Public Schools ’ Wheatley Education Campus. Last month, Johnson joined a handful of educators from the League of Innovative Schools on a tour of three public school districts in New Hampshire, a leader in competency-based education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 20 feet away. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. Competency-Based Learning. by Terry Heick. That’s good.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

As Shelby County 's journey toward competency-based education (CBE) has become regionally and nationally known, educators often ask about resources we have discovered along the way. Reinventing Crediting for Competency-Based Education: the Mastery Transcript Consortium Model and Beyond by Jonathan E.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Why would arguably one of the most innovative (and definitely the richest) technology tycoon of the 21st century support a low-tech pedagogy that has barely changed in more than a hundred years? Maria Montessori created a curriculum for individualized, competency-based learning a century before any of these terms became buzzwords.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. One of the most effective ways to personalize the path and pace of student learning is to build a strong foundation of competency based learning in your classroom or institution.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Education buzzwords come and go, just as the fads they sometimes represent. For a variety of reasons, the buzz phrases also come to take on new meanings that were never intended originally, which makes it hard for educators, entrepreneurs and researchers to communicate clearly and hone in on what exactly they are trying to do and why.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

I therefore thought that a definitive quick reference guide to the major players, with a brief description would be a handy resource for our readers. So here are eight ed-tech organizations every teachers should know about: ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). Structure: Membership-based. I hope you agree.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Department of Education issued grants to support CBE programs, focused on helping adult learners, at postsecondary institutions. In practice, competency-based education resembles the thousand-flower garden.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2022

When our district began its journey into competency-based education (CBE), one of the significant early steps was the publication of our Profile of a Graduate (PoG) in 2017. The Profile was crucial in developing our current Strategic Leadership Plan for 2018-2022, where Personalized Learning is the top strand.

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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.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2019

Education investments showed modest growth in the first quarter of 2019, even as venture investing in China in all other sectors dropped sharply. Within the Chinese education sector, three sectors saw a concentration of investments: competency-based education; language learning; education “informazation.”.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards. There were definitely doubts at first. Lessons learned. Every student receives a laptop for school and home. And they did.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The proficiency-based model is closely related to competency-based learning, where students are grouped with those who are closest to their language abilities, regardless of age or seat time. This is definitely not the first time that educators have raised eyebrows at the traditional A through F evaluation standard.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Despite being used to physical school, they had practice in both real-time, or synchronous, and self-paced, or asynchronous, learning. While most educators scrambled to shift gears, we found ourselves able to transition fluidly. This model allows educators to: Teach to a huge range of physical, mental, and emotional maturity levels.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Throughout the nation, I couldn’t be more impressed with the amazing educators who are working diligently for kids – every day. There’s quite a bit of evidence on topics such as brain-based learning that offer new insights into replacing traditional instruction and grading with proficiency-based learning and reporting.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If you ask a dozen educators to define personalized learning, you’ll no doubt get some enthusiastic answers, and all twelve will probably be different. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Like everything else in education, the devil is in the details.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

“Impact investing” is a term that has become increasingly common—even trendy—in the education sector. Many investors, foundations and even private equity firms have started so-called impact investment funds with a mission to support companies involved in teaching and learning. Now there’s a growing focus on competency-based learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s Time For Personalized Learning In Education. by Michael Horn , Executive Director of Education at Innosight Institute and co-author of Disrupting Class. In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

- In 2008, Adam Rubin and Todd Kern co-founded 2Revolutions , or 2Rev, because they believed the field of education was siloed, preventing innovation at scale. They created 2Rev as an education design lab—a place where designs for innovative learning models could be developed and tested.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

As edtech buzzwords new and old swirl , it is easy for educators to get lost among the fads du jour, much less apply the principles behind lofty ideas to make meaningful progress for students. At some schools, educators don’t take what they learn in alternative settings to improve mainstream classes.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Now all eyes are on our corner of the country as we transition from a traditional seat-time high school diploma to a proficiency-based diploma. You can find the official definition here. Special Education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. They develop learning experiences that incorporate demonstrations of learning and mastery.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

I’ve continued to go back to Tony Wan’s piece, Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining Competency-Based Education. I’m thrilled he wrote it, as I think it holds up a mirror to all of us working in the world of competency-based education about where we can do better. Source: CompetencyWorks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

Here in education, Khan doesn’t need much introduction. EdSurge: The theme of the conference is reimagining education. Sal Khan : I think there are a lot of levers where one could reimagine education, but the one that we focus most on is on this notion of, in a traditional academic model, kids move ahead at a fixed pace.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

I most definitely didn’t plan a project to have something like the superhero project culminate before every parent-teacher conference—that would feel forced. Find the right tools As report card season for the school year gets underway, I encourage educators to do their due diligence.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

A kid who does not do their homework normally will not watch the lectures at home even if you hold them accountable,” educator Chris Aviles has written in a screed against the model’s hype. Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In my role as the Chief Culture Officer at Valor Collegiate Academy , I’ve been wrestling lately with how to quantify, develop, and measure competencies like vulnerability in children (and adults) so that experiences like Jamal’s can become the rule rather than the exception.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Related: How one educator broke rules, influenced a state law, and got all of his students to graduation. Education is the only market that forces its consumer to consume a product without justification of its benefit or variety in choice.”. In the field of education, however, this practice has been overlooked and undervalued.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

Ed note: This post is promoted by SEU’s Master of Education program, who asked to write about how learning is changing, and let you know about their Master of Education and Educational Leadership program, which can you read more about here. Lecture likely has a place in education. Learning Models.

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