Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. Read the Executive Summary HERE and the full report HERE ). During that Summit, the leaders identified five key tenets of Competency Based Learning (CBL): Students advance upon mastery.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Students should master learning content but also abilities such as adaptability, resilience, and agency. Read more: How to enhance students’ work-ready skills. Teaching ensures performance, personalized learning , alternative learning pathways, self-paced learning, adjustment of content, and continuous support.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

She was not alone: A December report revealed that nearly one in five Nashville public school students was failing at least one class. And Nashville is not the only city reporting an alarming number of students receiving failing grades. How can we fail young people during a pandemic? I believe this is wrong.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

For all parents, learning how to find an appropriate work-family balance is of paramount importance. For years, we have made it our mission to help educators reimagine their schools and classrooms with a model known as competency-based learning. Photo: Brian Stack. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. Competency-based learning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The fact of the matter is that reporting to an office or being required to put in a set number of hours each day doesn't necessarily result in success. A greater emphasis on productivity in the future of work will require our learners to have a refined set of competencies. So, what does this mean for education?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Related: How to plan for a future of education where disruption is the norm. And the digital transformation will honor learning that occurs outside of the classroom, allowing a shift to competency-based learning, perhaps using microcredentials and badges. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The author’s daughter has spent much of the pandemic learning how to problem solve with her sewing machine. Early in the lockdown, my 10-year-old daughter learned how to use a sewing machine by watching YouTube videos. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

It can also mean that parents are overwhelmed by the number of tech tools available and are struggling to teach their children how to use them responsibly. Show parents how to use the tools. Read more: How to create accessible e-learning design. Teachers need some training themselves before using new tools.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. Without a change in engagement, professional development efforts will be severely hampered and learning outcomes will stay depressed.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Competency and mastery-based evaluations often require more work from teachers, more self-motivation from students, and less certainty when it comes to the college application process. So how to reap the benefits of competency-based education and make sure parents, teachers and other stakeholders are on board?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Personalized learning has become a popular buzzword for how to fix things. When this somewhat free-wheeling option is blended with the structure of Mastery-Based Learning, many schools find that it turns students who thought they “just weren’t smart enough” into lifelong learners. What is MBL.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

The value in what Caulfield shares is recognizing how much can be accomplished using low bandwidth, low immediacy tools,” argues Stachowiak. Start with the skills for lifelong learning and learn those.” In a series of blog items, he outlines what he calls a “ dirt simple online course ” with a bare-bones approach.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. As superintendent of Melrose Public Schools, Cyndy Taymore is leading a districtwide transition to competency-based education. MELROSE, Mass.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

“We don’t have to focus on math, because they’re already good at math,” said Yoon Jeon Kim, a research scientist in MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab who is monitoring the effort to see how well it works. “We So we can concentrate on how to teach.”. So we can concentrate on how to teach.”. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. The Every Student Succeeds Act begins to create room for states to use a more expansive set of learning providers and to report student success in a variety of ways.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Regardless, Chen’s team—along with a slew of educators and researchers across the country—are committed to finding out how to measure these key skills meaningfully. We take a look at how it’s going. At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king. The hard work of measuring soft skills. His main focus?

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

As a former New York City high school teacher, I know that parent-teacher conferences seldom provide parents with enough time to process what their children learned, what they’re interested in, and what needs improvement. How to integrate social emotional learning —plus a guide to SEL. Kiddom's student experience.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2016

BloomBoard, creator of an educator-focused professional development platform, has launched a new solution in personalized, competency-based learning for K-12 educators and districts. These tools aim to help administrative staff better understand how to most effectively use their professional development budget.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In 2011, Rubin and Kern co-authored and released, Designing The Future of Learning, a white paper focused on the transformation taking place in the educational system. Part of the work was supporting state and district leaders in developing a strategy for how to make the changes, and part of the work was helping them tell their story.

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

“We don’t have to focus on math, because they’re already good at math,” said Yoon Jeon Kim, a research scientist in MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab who is monitoring the effort to see how well it works. “We So we can concentrate on how to teach.”. So we can concentrate on how to teach.’ Yoon Jeon Kim, MIT Teaching Systems Lab.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

We’re hoping you don’t see the report as something you read once and file away, but that you start using it to really start stimulating conversation.”. NMC/CoSN Horizons Report: K-12 Edition). Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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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. Non academic skills, particularly CARES skills, weren’t being measured with the same rigor as academic skills.

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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. And then figuring out how to measure what emerges!

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school. ACCOUNTABILITY RULES.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Conferences are not for reporting test scores. Whether you’re in a 1:1 device environment or using a new learning management system, parents will appreciate understanding the instructional tools their kids are using in class. Understanding the school’s learning management system (LMS). In no particular order: 1.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course. Often the same book did both!

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

The previous summer, I started the Physics By Inquiry Summer Institute at the University of Washington, a three-year program where teachers learn how to run an inquiry-based classroom by engaging in inquiry-based learning themselves. That’s when data science come into the picture.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Having more time isn’t going to change much if schools haven’t thought about how to do this.”. Other objectives may be more suitable for performance- or project-based assessments that are evaluated with subjective rubrics.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Why there’s no such thing as an average person Up until 2002, Rose reports that brain scientists believed that in brain imaging—the use of various techniques to directly or indirectly image brain structure—there was such a thing as an “average brain.” We each have unique ways that our brains retrieve information and create memory.".

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Original reporting features (time spent reading, books read, etc.)

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

During these introductory sessions, by phone or web chat, Kent explains course logistics — for example, how she and the student will meet (virtually) at least once a month and how to upload weekly assignments. In a competency-based school, especially a virtual one, semesters lose their shape.

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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. We just broke the system. We're continually revising policy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report. Special Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something. Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report.

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