Understanding Performance-Based Learning
Are you new to competency education? Regardless if you call it competency education, proficiency-based, mastery-based or performance-based, the Reinventing Schools Coalition
September 19, 2013
Archives: CompetencyWorks
Competency-Based Grading and Common Core Math: A Perfect Match?
My Uh-Huh Moment Over the summer I spent the day with my math team as we prepared for the implementation
September 18, 2013
Google’s Real Influence on Education
With the education market heating up, we are beginning to see many of the big names trying to carve out
September 17, 2013
Competency Moves Beyond Courses
As a recipient of Next Generation Learning Challenge’s (NGLC) most recent wave of investment, New Hampshire-based Virtual Learning Academy Charter
September 16, 2013
Carpe Diem: Integrating Competency-Based and Blended Learning:
American Radio Works has released a great piece on digital learning One Child at a Time: Custom Learning in the
September 11, 2013
Radically Personalized Learning for All
What if we could create a future in which education truly served the needs of all children? Create a learning
September 10, 2013
Career Opportunities
CompetencyWorks has added a new page to our website to list career opportunities. As our colleagues move from one school
September 9, 2013
We Need a Good Story
Sitting on the shores of Crystal Lake, my mother’s friends were clutching the edges of their beach chairs with curiosity.
September 5, 2013
Five Areas We Need to Get Right
Other than the schools that have been doing competency education for a decade, such as Diploma Plus and Boston Day
September 3, 2013
Ensuring Practice Informs Federal Policy
During ACHIEVE’s Competency-based Pathways Working Group meeting today, Lillian Pace from KnowledgeWorks provided a quick update on federal policy incentives,
September 3, 2013