It’s Time to Reassess Our Understanding of the 4Cs
David outlines a new vision for the teaching and assessing of 21st century skills that is anchored in cultural awareness and differing ways of expressing competence.
Guidance Gap: The Biggest Challenge We Face and How to Close It
The dynamic employment market and expanding array of high school and postsecondary learning options make advisory services mission critical. A look at the growing guidance gap and why it's crucial we work to close it.
Agency and Co-Authoring Thriving in Colorado Schools
[…] possibility. A wind turbine design project at Watershed School. Compass Community Collaborative School Established in 2017, Compass Community Collaborative School in Fort Collins, Colorado, is a learner-centered competency-based public charter school. A sign hangs above the entrance to the school building that reads “WE STILL LOVE SCHOOL Real World Learning in Real Times.” At […]
Supporting Statewide Change Through New Models For Remote Education
[…] and cross-content experiences. Start with the Learner Schooling models should be, above all, learner-centered. This means providing experiences that are personalized, relevant, and contextualized, socially embedded, competency-based, open-walled, and characterized by high levels of learner agency. Achieving this vision requires understanding the needs and aspirations of families and communities in a new way. Design […]
Modern Classrooms Support SEL and an Assets Based Approach
[…] What are you doing to create this same future for your students? How the International School of Prague Inspires, Engages, and Empowers Learners A Platform to Support Competency-Based PBL Ben Owens spent 11 years as a physics and mathematics teacher at a small, innovative public school of choice in rural Appalachia after a long […]
A Reliable Hybrid Learning Model: Cedar Rapids Schools Respond to Setbacks
[…] hybrid scheduling guidelines established, Cedar Rapids could turn their attention to making adjustments to instruction. CRCSD was already pursuing a goal to gradually shift to a personalized, competency-based learning model. Prior to the pandemic, the team took cues from schools like Summit Public Schools and began adapting those ideas to the upper grades initially, […]
Three Strategies to Engage Middle Grade Students in Data Science
Data education can take many forms, but all have the opportunity to change youths’ view of what data are and how data can help them to make a difference in the world. Chad Dorsey explores the opportunities that lie in data science curricula.
Microschools: From Micro Innovation to Serial Disruption
[…] linear pedagogy that is content-driven, age cohorts, and letter-based grading systems are absent within the design. Multi-disciplinary projects, open structures, and experiential learning activities in conjunction with competency-based portfolios are rooted structures to elicit teaching that facilitates authentic learning experiences. Coherence Process #3 (Serial Disruption): For serial disruption purposes in alignment to Delta 2030, […]
The Role of Microschool Incubators: Nurturing the Future of Education
[…] passions, enact real-world solutions, and revolutionize learning, fostering a generation of changemakers. Lab51, an urban microschool in Boise, ID, extends this innovative approach globally, emphasizing student-driven governance, competency-based learning, and a growth transcript to cultivate a mindset for meaningful work and global impact. On Track Academy & Pratt Academy, are pioneering choice high schools […]
Claudette Trujillo on Implementing and Sustaining Competency-Based Education
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles sits down with Claudette Trujillo to discuss effective competency-based education.
