Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Principal Chris Huckans believes that competency-based education (CBE) is one of the keys to the school’s success. Huckans says that Bishop Hall’s use of the Brightspace learning management system provides students with highly personalized learning pathways, which “allow them to innovate and experiment.”

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Neo LMS

MAY 10, 2022

The type of technology that has the highest potential to do this is the intelligent learning platform (ILP). This AI-based tool offers different goal and progress tracking features, as well as competency-based learning tools and custom content recommendations. Use competency-based learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

During the spring of 2022, I met Nicki Slaugh , who serves as principal, and many of her staff at a school system where we were all there to facilitate professional learning on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL). Our entire school culture is based on always reaching for better.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

At the height of COVID-19, many schools weren’t able to undertake the full process of selecting and implementing a learning management system (LMS), even if they knew that this step would be foundational to achieving their vision for student learning. The COVID-19 pandemic offers an apt example of this mentality.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. Students advance upon demonstrated mastery, not based on time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. Yet inflexibility is a hallmark of our current education system, apparent in our failure to meet the diverse learning needs of all our children.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Aligning their efforts with the New York State Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards and the Profile of a North Salem Graduate , the district has developed a Computational Thinking Pathway, which provides CT and CS learning opportunities for all students. We live in an increasingly technological and computational world.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? We need integration with our rostering systems. So the system will know, okay, student A is part of teacher B's classroom. How is that part going? We need training.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Both students had the same rubric with the same competencies and standards to meet, but they were given the flexibility to show mastery of those competencies. That’s what competency-based education is about – giving students a voice in how they show what they’ve learned.

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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. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

That’s why the education system needs to understand that children are not born with these skills. In this article, we’ll discuss executive functioning skills and their importance as well as ways to teach them with the help of your learning management system (LMS). What are the most important executive functioning skills?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Lindsay Unified has seen significant improvement in academic achievement, graduation rates and the number of students going to college since it created a performance-based system in the mid-2000s. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The learning resources provide comprehensive instruction with practice materials to reinforce the lessons and help students achieve optimal outcomes. The complete multimedia learning system is designed as a financial competencies-based learning resource for educators. EDUTAINMENT MEETS FINTECH.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

In MBL, students are given multiple opportunities to improve work that doesn’t meet expected standards. Student achievement is evaluated against school learning standards and performance expectations. Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria. What is MBL.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

For example, during a parent-teacher meeting, you can set up a session in which to explain which tools you plan to use for the entire school year and what are the benefits for students. Parents should also receive information about the accounts that their children will be using, such as Microsoft 365 to log in to the school system.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What should come next is an examination of how schools can more deeply and deliberately harness technology to make high-quality learning accessible to every learner, even in the wake of a crisis. That means a digital transformation, with three key levers for change: in the classroom, in schools and at the systems level.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Unfortunately, most learning opportunities offered are static, prescriptive, or limited (and limiting)—not contextualized, personalized, or responsive. This work and learning happened throughout the school day as I listened to my students and adjusted lessons to connect to their talents and interests and to meet their goals and needs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

But neither the endorsement of powerful entities nor the enactment of new education policies assures that the push to create a skills-based education system will run like, er, clockwork. And even proponents of competency-based education say it can be daunting to do the work of unwinding academic systems from the mechanisms of time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Last year, like many schools, Parker-Varney navigated months of remote learning, in which standardized tests were disrupted and absences soared. Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Actual learning—not a piece of paper—should be the goal for every student. That recommendation, if realized, would bind LA Unified to a time-bound, one-size-fits-all model that fails to focus on the most important criterion—whether a student has learned the material. They simply can’t move on until they’ve grasped the subject matter.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Synchronous Works Better For Some Students Than For Others Holding an online class via a live video platform like Zoom or Google Meet can closely resemble an in-person classroom dynamic. One free online course on that topic is Learning How to Learn , and a key concept is developing habits to seek out new knowledge and skills on your own.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

Continuing education programs arose in the 19th century to meet the critical workforce and social needs of the time. Most continuing education programs remain relatively autonomous from the existing processes and priorities that govern the traditional university. Indeed, this autonomy has been a distinctive feature since their beginnings.

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ExcelinEd

JUNE 10, 2019

This means schools will be able to look beyond the classroom for new learning experiences. In the past decade, innovation schools have repeatedly requested the authority to make decisions about how they will meet statutory minimum requirements related to pupil-teacher contact hours and school calendar days.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

The delivery method including video platforms, in-services, self-determined learning, and PD Communities require ongoing validation to ensure a greater return on investment (ROI). A blending of all four dimensions is needed to have a well-balanced professional development/ learning community. With research from the U.S.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

How can this dean more effectively personalize professional development to meet each teacher where they are and help them get to where they need to be? 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 Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

How can this dean more effectively personalize professional development to meet each teacher where they are and help them get to where they need to be? Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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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. That was another hard question we had to confront when it was asked by a Spanish teacher at a department meeting not long ago.

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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. Those contrasting experiences made her believe that one-size-fits-all educational systems don’t work. By 2015, Taymore decided she needed a system with an organizing principle. MELROSE, Mass.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

I had the opportunity to meet Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor who coined the term “disruptive innovation,” at the Education Commission of the States’ annual conference where he gave a keynote address. Personalized learning is an idea whose time has come. Then in 2005, I had an epiphany. and Oakland, CA.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

We have pushed many state districts to make significant policy changes that align with instructional and educational best practices, and have encouraged teachers, administrators, and districts to innovate educational systems design. Below are the four I believe loom largest: 1. Defining Proficiency How do you define “proficient?”

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Some people have called parts of this “competency-based learning,” but ideally schools can achieve this shift without altering outcomes in such a holistic way. They can lay their existing lesson plans end-to-end like bricks and already have the basics of personalized workflow learning. The Game Rules.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2016

Blackboard has launched a new K-12 platform for districts and schools that brings together institutions, parents, teachers, and learners in an integrated approach that addresses fundamental requirements for student success including school safety and security, family and community engagement and personalized competency-based learning.

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MindShift

JUNE 21, 2016

Educators are working to solve this problem in diverse ways, some moving to competency based learning systems that let kids move through curriculum at their own pace, and others doing the best to get students working independently part of the time while giving focused attention to others.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2018

As more and more school systems across the country explore competency-based education (CBE), we need to be attentive to the processes that will actually allow such innovations to thrive. How can schools disrupt the traditional mold if they must remain accountable to that mold?

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