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Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now.

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Asmaa, Ismail and their peers in public education were caught in the perfect storm of school closures and an unplanned and awkward move to online learning. One solution my district is beginning to explore is a competency-based learning system, and I am on a team of teachers and administrators working for the change.

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How to make competency-based education possible through an intelligent learning platform

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Competency-based learning is easier to implement when you have the right tools. An intelligent learning platform (ILP) is the ideal option. This technology already incorporates all the features you need to implement a competency-based learning model. Improved confidence and self-assessment skills.

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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

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Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Alongside personalized learning are a whole heap of concepts that some have declared are a necessary part of personalized learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. But there is a phrase for that: deeper learning.

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Distinctly Equitable: How This Chicago School Makes Competency-Based Learning Work

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Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. Equity was a major driver in implementing competency based learning. It’s everyone getting what they need.

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

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The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. They develop learning experiences that incorporate demonstrations of learning and mastery.

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Not Just Buzzwords: How Teachers Bring Big Ideas, Innovative Practices to Life

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Starting something in these areas means that, by definition, there is typically more upside than downside because the alternative is that students will have no other options. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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How 2Revolutions is Helping Schools, Districts, and States Support Future of Learning Models

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Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as online learning opportunities. In 2015, after working with other tech partners, 2Revolutions decided to build its own social learning platform from scratch.