Competency-Based Education
Posts by Bonnie Lathram
Personalized Learning
The Students and Parents of Project-Based Learning
We recently had the opportunity to hear powerful stories from students, parents, and educators at PBL World. In this podcast, you will hear from some of the people we spoke with and learn why they are vested in project-based learning.
Personalized Learning
9 Ideas for Combatting Boredom in School (and Why Being Bored May Not Be All Bad)
I recently asked friends and educators: What’s the opposite of boredom? What are ways we can combat boredom? And finally, should we? Here are the nine responses, takeaways and helpful tips I received.
Leadership
5 Organizations Scaling Innovations in Learning Across Africa
We live in a time of great opportunity to help spread new schools and new tools to those who need them across the planet. Here are five education organizations to watch as they scale innovations in learning across Africa.
Personalized Learning
Promising Practices in Equity and Project-Based Learning
At this year's PBL World conference, BIE's executive director Bob Lenz spoke at length about the importance of preparing students for a project-based world, and an economic rationale as well as an equity perspective on the importance of PBL.
Personalized Learning
6 Insights on Student Ownership for Your PBL Classroom
At this year's PBL world, our team asked educators, "How do you foster student ownership in your PBL classroom?" Here is what we learned.
EdTech
20 Math and ELA Tools that Support English Language Learners
As part of our #SupportELL series, we have summarized some products, services and tools that support English Language Learners (ELLs) and their teachers.
Leadership
Deeper Learning and Equity: 3 Educator Perspectives
At the recent Deeper Learning conference, we asked educators two questions around deeper learning and equity. Here are the responses we filmed from three of these educators.
Personalized Learning
4 Ways to Use Project-Based Learning to Support English Language Learners
A growing number of educators are using innovative project-based learning approaches to teach English through content and through the use of comprehensible input. Leading educators explain why and how they are doing this in classrooms across the United States.
Personalized Learning
6 Entry Points for Deeper Learning
“Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.” -Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes: Acting on What Matters As educators and EdLeaders, we seek to illuminate entry points to deeper learning, while knowing that the real work is, as…
Leadership
Promising Practices in Deeper Learning and Equity
There are initiatives in the United States to reduce achievement gaps and increase access to high quality education for all students. At this year’s Deeper Learning conference, conversations --and the real work--are about equity.