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		<title>Put On Your Creative Hat When Thinking About Proficiency-based Grading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day there seems to be one more webinar on grading. This is great that more information supporting competency education is becoming available. However, my concern is that they are not contextualized within a school culture or school-wide reform. Earlier this week in a conversation, Rich DeLorenzo pointed that if one teacher uses proficiency-based grading [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/05/put-on-your-creative-hat-when-thinking-about-proficiency-based-grading/' addthis:title='Put On Your Creative Hat When Thinking About Proficiency-based Grading' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Site Visit Takeaways</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 07:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may know, ACHIEVE has established a Competency-Based Pathways Work Group to examine how competency education may impact assessment, accountability, graduation requirements, and other state policies.  Working with leaders from ten states, Cory Curl and Anne Bowles are providing tools, research, and analysis so that state policymakers can assess opportunities to support competency education. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/05/site-visit-takeaways/' addthis:title='Site Visit Takeaways' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Maine&#8217;s P2 Approach (Personalization + Proficiency-Based)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t taken the time to watch the videos at Maine&#8217;s Center for Best Practice, I hope you will in the near future.  I don&#8217;t think there is anything better to understand the spirit of competency-based approaches. They&#8217;ve just released two new ones (see below). Maine, as you probably know, has started with the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/05/maines-p2-approach-personalization-proficiency-based/' addthis:title='Maine&#8217;s P2 Approach (Personalization + Proficiency-Based)' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>We Need You to Help Us Help Others Learn about Competency Education</title>
		<link>http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/03/we-need-you-to-help-us-help-others-learn-about-competency-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it has done in the past years, the iNACOL Conference will have an entire strand dedicated to competency education.  This year we would like to ask you for your guidance in identifying the most meaningful topics for workshops at the iNACOL Symposium’s competency-based education strand. The iNACOL Virtual School Symposium name is changed – [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/03/we-need-you-to-help-us-help-others-learn-about-competency-education/' addthis:title='We Need You to Help Us Help Others Learn about Competency Education' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Maine Creating Common Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Chapin just forwarded me the announcement that the Maine Department of Education’s Center for Best Practice has compiled a Glossary of Proficiency-Based Education in Maine to help educators navigate the shift toward proficiency-based/learner-centered education. The lack of consistency in language is one of the major problems that educators face when implementing such a system. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/03/maine-creating-common-language/' addthis:title='Maine Creating Common Language' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Where Things Can Go Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/03/where-things-can-go-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[assessment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.competencyworks.org/?p=2987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last three days, in three different meetings, I’ve been asked to summarize what I’m learning about competency education. In yesterday’s meeting with RTT districts I shared the following list of things people starting off in competency education need to think about earlier than later in their process&#8230;i.e. this is a place where implementation can [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/03/where-things-can-go-wrong/' addthis:title='Where Things Can Go Wrong' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Necessary for Success</title>
		<link>http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/02/necessary-for-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[District and school leaders constantly tell me that there is very little in federal and state policy that prevents them from implementing the most important elements of competency education&#8230;even in a policy context dominated by the Carnegie unit. They also emphasize that if state policy was more aligned with competency education and student learning they [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/02/necessary-for-success/' addthis:title='Necessary for Success' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic Ingredient: Information Management Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/02/the-magic-ingredient-information-management-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Lindsay Unified for a full day tour of their performance-based system.  Delightfully it started out with a presentation from students that talked about what a performance-based system meant to them and their education. One of the strongest themes was transparency &#8212; transparency in the curriculum, in [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/02/the-magic-ingredient-information-management-systems/' addthis:title='The Magic Ingredient: Information Management Systems' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Whole District Reform &#8211; Oh My!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/02/whole-district-reform-oh-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.competencyworks.org/?p=2897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this in all my days of visiting schools and districts &#8212; whole district reform designed around a shared vision, similar practices, and such a high degree of transparency.  Of course we have a growing number of competency-based schools generating innovative practices, but my visits to Maine and Lindsay California have [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/02/whole-district-reform-oh-my/' addthis:title='Whole District Reform &#8211; Oh My!' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Tempo, Pacing and Personalization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sturgis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in this topic? Join us for the Pacing and Personalization webinar on February 12th, 3:30 ET. Register here. There is no doubt we are creating new language to describe the next generation education system. It’s emerging quickly and is going to become one of the topics that I write about. I stumbled upon the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://www.competencyworks.org/2013/02/tempo-pacing-and-personalization/' addthis:title='Tempo, Pacing and Personalization' ><a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a><a class="addthis_button_print"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like"></a></div>]]></description>
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