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). After several workshops, I began coaching cycles in the fall of 2022.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 28, 2022

They also support students’ self-paced learning needs, their ability to self-assess their skills and provide access to the most suitable content based on their goals, and interests. . Competency-based learning and automation . Student autonomy is not just about letting students learn at their own pace.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

For example, giving students money for every book they read is just as ineffective as chastising them for not reading. That is why the self-determination theory (SDT) seeks to explain how students can become better learners through three core concepts: autonomy, relatedness, and competence. Conclusion.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

For example, a Biology professor can push their book on Photosynthesis to any student that has set the learning goal of mastering that concept. Ideally, students should be able to share successful learning paths with others. The pixie dust tying everything together: Competencies. NEO Guide: Competency-based learning.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Grades will appear in the grade book so you won’t have missing papers. Otherwise, you can create an offline assignment such as reading a book, and grade them once students complete the offline task. With the help of competency-based learning, you can see how well students are acquiring knowledge and skills.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. So, if you can imagine reading a book on Kindle, the finished product you can actually flip through like a book. Mandy: Yeah, right.

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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. We set out to meet that challenge and better understand the extent to which personalized, competency-based learning could prepare our learners for an uncertain future.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Cator’s organization has tried to brand CBL as challenge-based learning.) Department of Education.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. During that Summit, the leaders identified five key tenets of Competency Based Learning (CBL): Students advance upon mastery. Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives that empower students.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

Students and parents learn from the syllabus what to expect from your class and you can give them more details about what you’ll include in your lessons. Add competencies for each class . Moreover, when the competencies are set, students can self-monitor their learning, see their quiz results, and check their progress.

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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). Dr. Jared Scherz is a clinical psychologist, the author of five books on schools and the founder of TeacherCoach. With research from the U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. The concept of competency-based learning has been around for decades, but was hard to pull off until the proliferation of two things: computers and universal educational standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Still, educators tend to be preconditioned to assign grades — not necessarily because we believe they best reflect our assessments of student learning and development but because our grading practices are what we are used to. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Asynchronous Can Still Be Interactive If instructors get creative, they can build personalized interactions into asynchronous teaching, argues Michelle Eaton, director of virtual and blended learning for a school district in Indianapolis.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For this week’s EdSurge podcast we checked in with a longtime proponent of competency based education: Paul LeBlanc, the president of Southern New Hampshire University. And he lays out his latest thoughts about the approach in his new book, “ Students First: Equity, Access and Opportunity in Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If we determine that they aren’t, can we chart a pedagogical future that is project-based, learner-driven and community-oriented? Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.”

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Turning Learning On Its Head

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

I am not flipping my class per se anymore, but rather I am teaching using Mastery/Competency-Based Learning in my class. Mastery Learning is defined as: An approach to classroom instruction that empowers every student at every level to progress with confidence. I get to learn at my own pace. Learn More.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I am not flipping my class per se anymore, but rather I am teaching using Mastery/Competency-Based Learning in my class. . Mastery Learning is defined as: An approach to classroom instruction that empowers every student at every level to progress with confidence. I get to learn at my own pace. Learn More.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

I had effectively created the conditions necessary for my students to self-advocate, which, as I would later learn, meant parent-teacher conferences would be less of a performance review. Create conditions for students to self-advocate I set a minimum expectation for myself to keeping my grade book up-to-date on a daily basis.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

In Paul Tough’s new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering “noncognitive”—or character—abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom. In today’s system, time is held as a constant and each student’s learning is variable. As a result, they develop major holes in their learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

Parents are also exerting themselves within schools by advocating for changes in curriculum and instruction—whether that’s to move to reading instruction in line with the evidence of how students become good readers, or in the way the books in a school library reflect a community’s values. That’s the topic of my book, From Reopen to Reinvent.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Such experiences are all too common for transfer students like Kevin, and many others, who we interviewed as we conducted research for our book “ Choosing College.” After some time in the workforce, he re-enrolled in the first school he attended—and began his journey as a freshman yet again.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s easy to get excited about the virtues of mastery, or competency-based, learning. What’s not to like about a system that guarantees that students learn, as opposed to one that is focused on the amount of time students sit in seats?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

In particular, what books have we read? 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.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

In the next couple of years, I was informally involved with the writing of the book, mainly serving as a sounding board to one of its co-authors, Michael Horn. During that time, I was proselytizing for the introduction of technology as an integral part of the curriculum, a mantra that mostly fell on deaf ears.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

They have to pass this assessment, but they also have to talk with you so that you understand that they’ve learned the material. Most of the grades that went in the grade book were the mastery checks, which they were allowed to retake as many times as they needed. Johnson and prove my learning to her through conversations.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As Sanjay Sarma points out in his book “ Grasp ,” the American education system has long been about “winnowing” down masses of people to those who are deemed deserving of educational investment and those who are not. My favorite rebuttals were the ones that argued not every student belonged in honors math. “If

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

So our idea is what does human-centered AI look like when we talk about learning, what are the human relationships that we want to preserve in a world where human beings are no longer the most powerful entities when it comes to declarative knowledge? AI hallucinations aside, we're losing that race pretty quickly.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2018

Her class is learning about muscles, but instead of watching a video or reading about it in a book, she can move a virtual arm and see an exposed bicep muscle contract. Imagine a high school student in your district. Are engines her thing? She can safely experiment with a virtual torque wrench in a mechanics class.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

DECEMBER 13, 2024

My journey to the point where AI tutors were essential was making students the center of learning chemistry. Background and Context As one of the pioneers of the Flipped Learning Movement and an author of ten books on Flipped Learning, I have seen a lot of change in my career. I had unfinished business.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2022

This is where an excellent book enters stage left: Deeper Competency-Based Learning: Making Equitable, Student-Centered, Sustainable Shifts by Karin Hess, Rose Colby, and Daniel Joseph (Corwin, 2020).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Rose, who currently heads the Mind, Brain and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and cofounded the Center for Individual Opportunity , became well-acquainted with the concept of “average”—average score, average body size, average ability—after conducting research for his recent book, “ The End of Average.”

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

figured this out, and found a way to marry personalized learning and teacher content by allowing every teacher to teach an elective on anything they want as long as it is tied to standards. Snowy Peaks High School in Dillon, Colo.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 27, 2017

I remember buying Jessica this huge Atlas that was a bound book. Is this why project based learning, cross-curricular integrated units, genius hour, and personalized learning is becoming significantly more popular? Is this why schools are trying to shift away from grades-based learning to competency-based learning?

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