The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Education policy should be top of mind as state policymakers continue their legislative work this spring. After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. We should ask no less of ourselves.

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Competency Based Learning Policies Personalized Learning Education 91

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals.

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Handbook Flipped Classroom Learning Competency Based Learning 436

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 129

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Brent Maddin is the Provost at the Relay Graduate School of Education, Director of TeacherSquared, and a member of the Digital Promise Micro-credential Advisory Board. Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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Digital Badges Education Competency Based Learning Assessment 120

Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Educational institutions need to keep up. No matter if we’re talking about kindergartens, elementary schools, high schools or colleges and universities, the need for a learning platform that offers personalized learning experiences for each student is all too real. 3 Core aspects of a personalized learning platform.

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Personalized Learning Learning Assessment Competency Based Learning 386

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Brent Maddin is the Provost at the Relay Graduate School of Education, Director of TeacherSquared, and a member of the Digital Promise Micro-credential Advisory Board. Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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Digital Badges Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 139

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! So, do you think you have a pilot approach others could learn from?

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Robotics Education Competency Based Learning Program Evaluation 120

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress. Like the reality that it takes different students different amounts of time to acquire skills. “It That would be a very risky proposition.”

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Classroom Learning Company Assessment 215

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The certainty of climate change and likelihood of more pandemics and other large-scale disruptions leave us with questions about what the future of education will look like. We should use this moment to catalyze a digital transformation of education that will prepare schools for our uncertain future.

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Competency Based Learning Data Policies Accessibility 103

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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Assessment Competency Based Learning Examples Personalized Learning 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Separate from its Playbook that helps define a vision, Education Elements , a consulting firm, helps schools and districts design next-generation teaching and learning models. Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools.

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Education Elements Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Blended Learning 60

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. NG2] tackles long-standing educational barriers to personalized learning. Allen sees NG2 as a continuation of that trajectory.

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Assessment Elementary Data Groups 160

eSpark

AUGUST 4, 2021

With so many options for online learning available, one thing that can set a program apart from the others is a curriculum grounded in proven educational research. We are proud to announce that eSpark has earned the Research-Based Design Product Certification from Digital Promise.

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Competency Based Learning EdTech Online Learning Digital Learning 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To develop mastery , students must acquire foundational skills, practice using them together, and know when to apply what they have learned. Learning is contextual. Generalizing learning to new contexts (what education researchers call transfer) requires facilitation. There would always be students who didn’t earn an A.

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Learning System Outcomes Elementary 162

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. What are the common mistakes that educators make when they’re trying to use FlipSnack? You said it’s not collaborative. Students absolutely love it.

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EdTech Tools Libraries Google 175

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s easy to get excited about the virtues of mastery, or competency-based, learning. What’s not to like about a system that guarantees that students learn, as opposed to one that is focused on the amount of time students sit in seats? Were this our current education system, he would have received a grade — perhaps a C.

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Learning Competency Based Learning Assessment System 92

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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Classroom Blended Learning Flipped Classroom Course 217

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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Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Elementary Course 111

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

McComb School District down in McComb, Mississippi doesn’t just believe in the power of technology when it comes to personalized learning. We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws. Lakya Taylor-Washington, Principal of Summit Elementary School in McComb.

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Competency Based Learning Policies Common Core Elementary 83

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” More via Buzzfeed and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “What You Need to Know About Race-Conscious Admissions in 2017.” In the past, Secretaries of Education have just used the department’s own force.

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

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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Personalized Learning Learning Education Competency Based Learning 40

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them. They dubbed the behaviors “Work-Study Practices” (WSP).

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 81

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

With a 56-year generation-spanning career as an educator, Mrs. Adkins approaches her 90th birthday still teaching, loving kids, and riding over 100 miles on her bike each week. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. Vicki: Yes.

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Learning Exercises Course Meeting 174

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?”

Personalized Learning 60

Personalized Learning iLearn Learning Dropout 60

Tech Helpful

MARCH 27, 2017

Educational technology was not even a strong game at that point. What does this mean to education? With educational technology comes faster access to information and opinions. More than ever before I think it is imperative that we look at education differently. When do we, as educators, ask easily Googleable questions?

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Digital Citizenship Competency Based Learning Google Elementary 40

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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Blended Learning Classroom Blendspace Learning 40

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CENTRALREACH PK-12 ( www.centralreach.com/industry/pk-12-education ) CentralReach launches CentralReach PK-12, a collaborative and data-driven software for special education. The software helps schools foster communication and coordination of instruction and care for students in special education programs.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 71

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Beginning that very first year in my Algebra classroom, I've strived to make it easier for educators to design their own curriculum. competency-based (a.k.a. standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification.

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Khan Academy Assessment Differentiated Instruction EdTech 60