Podcasts

Are you looking for education podcasts that can help your school adjust its schedule and reimagine time to support students? Below, find articles that dig deeper into Reimagining Time podcast episodes.

Competency-Based Education: Rethinking Grading Practices

Ashley Mauger2024-05-13T13:10:10-04:00

Competency-based education focuses on student learning and mastery of skills, not seat time. Many schools have begun to, or have already shifted to this type of model. Students can benefit from competency-based education because it's more flexible, and ensures that they really learn a concept. It's not based on [...]

Time for Change: Building Buy In

Ashley Mauger2026-04-21T19:11:19-04:00Tags: Flex Period|

Is your school thinking of adding a flex period to its schedule, but struggling to get buy-in? And how do you find time in the school day for a flexible period when your schedule is already packed? When schools are looking to make changes to their schedule, these are often [...]

Genius Hour, Reinvented

Ashley Mauger2026-04-21T19:11:46-04:00Tags: Flex Day, Genius Hour, STEM|

Genius Hour isn't a new concept. Schools take roughly an hour and allow students to work on something they really want to work on. It may be easier to do this in elementary schools than middle or high schools, when students are taking so many classes, where do you [...]

Competencies vs. Seat Time: How Do You Measure Student Achievement?

Ashley Mauger2026-04-21T19:18:52-04:00

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? [...]