A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

For personalization to fully flourish in ways that meet the needs of all, there should be a multi-faceted approach that strategically embeds voice, choice, path, pace, and place throughout lesson design and facilitation. Case in point. What this translates into is that there is no one way to personalize.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In previous generations, the “organize and sort” method, typified by an A-F grading scale, was the most thorough manner of assessing students given the lack of unifying systems that could track and chart specific skill development. So what school-wide practices support true competency-based education? But times have changed.

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Neo LMS

MAY 10, 2022

The main ways to identify learning gaps are through observation and evaluation: Observation enables you to understand which students are up-to-date with their learning goals and have acquired the skills they need based on the curriculum. This is where learning gaps come to light. Use competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2025

For example, instead of saying they took a speech class, they can break down the specific skills they learned or had to use, such as public speaking, critical thinking and research. This does not necessarily mean changing what you teach, but it does mean considering how you are meeting workforce needs.

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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. Olivia Mone, Melrose High School senior on competency-based learning. “It Acevedo sees teacher buy-in as evidence that competency-based learning is working in Melrose. “I

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

3 Core aspects of a personalized learning platform. A personalized learning platform can support teachers in meeting the needs of each and every one of their students, no matter if we’re talking about classes of 15 preschoolers or 15,000 university students. Let’s explore each of these aspects: Learning goals.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

STLR gives them the method, structure, assessment tool and resources to more directly get at what is the evidence that a student is prepared in these core areas and at what level. Faculty need tools and ways to do so. However, higher education cannot continue to assume that it knows what employers want and need. “The

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It can be challenging to assess their responses in a live meeting since you also have to teach, and sometimes there are frequent interruptions. This step helps you identify what needs to be re-taught, so students don’t start new lessons with many knowledge gaps. Aim for a high success rate.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Teaching ensures performance, personalized learning , alternative learning pathways, self-paced learning, adjustment of content, and continuous support. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning. Various forms of assessment are reported separately.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

Some districts seek to expand their LMS use, while others evaluating whether tools like Google Classroom or Seesaw are sufficient to meet their community’s needs. A good LMS allows teachers to create and share content remotely, work collaboratively with students, create groups, and tailor their instruction to meet individual needs.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels. The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Learning is personalized, based on school standards. Students who don’t understand a topic and don’t do well on the summative assessment for that subject, aren’t automatically moved on because time allotted for that topic ran out. Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

That’s why I’m a fan of personalized and competency-based learning environments, in which young people do learn these skills. Students assess their own strengths and weaknesses and set learning goals in partnership with their teachers. The recent announcement by the U.S.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Educators are fundamentally learners, as well as masters of assessing and adjusting learning opportunities. Unfortunately, most learning opportunities offered are static, prescriptive, or limited (and limiting)—not contextualized, personalized, or responsive.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

Nonetheless, self-evaluation is equally or more important since it allows students to properly assess their strengths and weaknesses and pinpoint the needed course of action. Done inadequately, self-assessment and monitoring can lead to serious issues that can impact students’ well-being. Working memory. Time management.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. Not only do we need to meet kids individually where they are, but we also have to ease the burden that teachers face. EdSurge: How can curriculum providers help schools address teacher burnout and reduce gaps in student learning?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Ideally, integration with our assessments. For those who may not know that concept, what is your elevator pitch for mastery learning? After a little bit of lecture and homework for a couple of weeks, you give an assessment. I view competency-based learning as a form of mastery learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. The core promise of CBE, she says, is to create a system where teachers can provide the instructional support meet all students’ needs, regardless of where they are at. Some terms, including “open,” get appended to specific use cases.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2016

Continuing education programs arose in the 19th century to meet the critical workforce and social needs of the time. Competency-based education has become a hot trend in recent years, and it is no coincidence that one of the few direct assessment programs that the Department of Education has approved is at a continuing education school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual. Rather than compete, students cheer one another on, staffers say.

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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? Educators would not only have the traditional acknowledgement, but they would also have a portable, evidence-based way to showcase their specific knowledge and skills.

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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? Educators would not only have the traditional acknowledgement, but they would also have a portable, evidence-based way to showcase their specific knowledge and skills.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

With more college students now considered nontraditional than traditional, higher education institutions have been scrambling to shift their models to better meet their needs. Many have turned to competency-based education, known as CBE, to reach the increasingly important returning adult learner.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The district convened a series of meetings with teachers, school leaders, parents, city officials and community members to discuss what kind of educational system the community needed. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In 2012, Maine passed a law requiring that by 2018 all students would graduate with a proficiency-based diploma; the law then went through a major update in 2015-2016. Some districts are taking another approach, suggesting that diplomas should be based on a different set of standards for students with significant disabilities.

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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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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. With rigorous, competency-based learning, effort is all but guaranteed since students must keep working until they truly master material. The answer is to improve the assessments and the conditions under which they are administered.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding. We should have started with assessment,” she explains.

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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 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Switching to mastery-based learning requires a great deal of coordination.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Our collective goal was to begin to rethink quality assurance in an educational system with an array of learning providers. Framework for the Future of Learning. Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans. It is burdensome and takes big chunks of time away from learning. Source: ReSchool).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

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. The content was prescriptive and standardized, which meant taking it apart to meet student needs sometimes took longer than just making it myself.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The rubrics and learning targets are now fixtures in each Montpelier classroom. In the four-column rubric for precalculus assessment, Machnik explained what it would take to be “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient” and “exemplary” in trigonometric equations. Coen likes the new flexibility around assessment retakes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. They develop learning experiences that incorporate demonstrations of learning and mastery.

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