"...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 [...]
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.; [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
Now an admin can give all students the same password. Go to Settings, Manage Students and click the Advanced button. This will re-direct you to a page where you can manage student self scheduling, and now, set the same password for all students. This is to enable all students [...]
A new report is available under the Analysis page. It's found under the Attendance section and is labeled Tardy Students. This lists students that were marked as tardy for the provided date range. I will list the student's name, the date they were scheduled, the period, and course they [...]
Your school may enable its students to request an appointment to see a teacher. You can view student requests on the Requests page, which you can get to by selecting Requests in the navigation logged into your Enriching Students account. In addition, if you have any new student requests, [...]
Does your school have a Professional Learning Community? If you do, what does this look like? More importantly… Is it something you look forward to? Even if you do not have one at your school, likely you’ve heard of them. Professional Learning Communities. What are they? Is this just [...]
To edit a custom course option to change the appointment type, room number, or change the ‘block self scheduling’ option, you used to have to completely re-create the course. Now, on the Courses and the Admin Adjust Courses page, you now have the ability to edit these options for [...]
When taking attendance for students, staff can select an appropriate attendance type for students, the default options being Present and Participation, Present not Participating, Absent, and sometimes Cut. We’ve added a new feature that allows admins to change attendance types values for column headers, as displayed on the Student [...]