How Your School Schedule Can Support Equity for Learners
"If you have a mission, if you have a vision, right, if you know your values and your goals, your purpose, does your schedule align with that? And so if you’re saying, ‘Look I guarantee that all of my students are going to be successful, I understand that my my students had this pause [...]
The Top 5 List for Successful CBL
Making the shift to a competency-based learning environment may seem like an overwhelming task. For administrators, how do you get everyone on board? As a teacher, how do you manage the shifts in grading and curriculum? And what about if you're a parent or a student? How do you adapt to the changes, or [...]
How PLCs Facilitate Competency Ed
"...we didn’t set out to become a competency based learning environment. We had actually simply asked the question -- building a vision mission etc. -- “What is it that we want for our learners?” and we started to build from there. And we felt like the PLC model really fit with that.” - Jonathon [...]
How to Make Your Flex Time Implementation Successful
What makes or breaks a new program at a school? Often, preparedness and having all (or most) staff onboard. All of the systems of support need to be in place. If a school is considering adding a flex period to their school schedule for extra help, intervention, remediation, enrichment, etc.; the success of that addition [...]
Competencies vs. Seat Time: How Do You Measure Student Achievement?
A major component of competency-based education revolves around the idea of measuring student achievement by mastery of a skill, not how long they've spent in a classroom. So, if seat time, or even number grades, are not being used, how is a student's success actually measured in competency-based education? The key is in competencies. [...]
Competency Ed Encourages ‘Employability Skills’
What are 'Employability Skills?' In short, employability skills are just what they sound like. Real world skills that will help you get a job. Some students may feel like that the things they are learning are useless, that the only skills they are developing are how to efficiently work the system to get grades. [...]