Boston Day and Evening Academy: Where Competency Education is Good Teaching...
During my site visit to BDEA, Alison Hramiec, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, explained that at BDEA “competency is synonymous with good teaching practice, with clear rubrics and discussion...
View ArticleIs the Creation of Competencies Unnecessary Work?
What is a competency? Many people say competencies are what students are to know and be able to do. If that’s the case, don’t we already have competencies in the Common Core standards? The standards...
View ArticlePortability and Access
David Domenici at the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings has been visiting state juvenile justice leaders this spring exploring how they are providing educational services in...
View ArticleWebinar on Designing Competencies
Sign up on the CompetencyWorks e-list to get the early release of the CompetencyWorks briefing paper The Art and Science of Designing Competencies with insights from practitioners across the country....
View ArticleSetting up a Competency-Based System: The Authoring Process
If and when your institution is ready to move into the next steps of transitioning to competencies from set time, I have compiled a list of things that we have learned over the better part of a decade....
View ArticleFive Things That Changed At My School When We Adopted Competencies
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” This ancient Chinese proverb sums up my view on why, just three years ago, it was time for my school, Sanborn Regional...
View ArticleExceeding Is More Complicated Than Adding Glitter and Flash
There are different ideas about the best way to report student progress towards targets, or competencies. One of the most popular methods is to use a 4 point scale with levels described similarly to...
View ArticleWhen Is It Competency Education? And When Is It Not?
It’s getting popular. Many schools claim to be using competency education. Does offering adaptive software or blended learning immediately make a school competency-based? It’s getting confusing....
View ArticleWading into the Water: Curriculum Design for Competency Education
The section on Curriculum and Instruction in Making Mastery Work: A Close-Up View of Competency Education is chock full of insights into the dynamics of setting up and sustaining a competency-based...
View ArticleA GPS for Competency Education
We are now starting to see whole networks of schools move towards competency education. The Asia Society, which has 34 schools in their International Studies Schools Network (ISSN), has four schools...
View Article21st Century Skills and Designing Competencies
Competencies provide a unique opportunity to truly teach and assess 21st Century Skills. While there are many 21st Century Skills out there, the 4Cs (Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration,...
View ArticleCompetencies For Competency Education?
With the help of our Advisory Board, Susan Patrick and I have been trying to sketch out a) which competencies are needed to implement competency education and b) what a core set of trainings would look...
View ArticleTechnology Tools Lag Our Competency-based Aspirations
This post was originally published by the Christensen Institute on November 13, 2013. Last week I wrote about structural barriers inhibiting competency-based education from taking off, even when policy...
View ArticleCounted or not, doing what counts in competency-based education
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” - William Bruce Cameron (and on a sign hanging in Albert Einstein’s office) Competency-based education comes...
View ArticleGoing deeper or going further: Where students advance in competency-based models
Originally posted Jan. 29, 2014 at The Christensen Institute. The crux of competency-based education is that students advance only upon mastery. This is a deeply logical approach to unlock each...
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