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Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. In Melrose, they’re calling it competency-based education, and it’s moving full steam ahead. MELROSE, Mass.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

Edsurge

This story is part of a series from EdSurge Research on how schools are redefining student success using MyWays , a framework created by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). They appreciated how it balanced academic and non academic competencies and were hopeful that it would resolve some of the issues teachers were facing.