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Portrait of a Graduate: A Gateway to Competency-Based Learning

August 24, 2023

Briana Medina, Khamiah Alderman

Issue(s): Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

A (Self) Portrait of a Graduate

August 2, 2023

Courtney Williams

Issue(s): Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

Empowering Community Progress: Integrating Open Principles in Education

June 12, 2023

Landon MascareƱaz and Doannie Tran

Issue(s): Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Engage Community

Competency-Based Education Across America

May 31, 2023

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

From Good to Great, Initial to Ideal: A Way to Improve Exhibitions and Other Performance Assessments

May 15, 2023

Adam Watson

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field

Diving into a Deep Blue(grass) Sea of Innovation, Part Two: Early Lessons Learned When Implementing Multi-District Deeper Learning in Kentucky

January 25, 2023

Adam Watson

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Develop Educator Capacity

Diving into a Deep Blue (grass) Sea of Innovation, Part One: How Educational Cooperatives and Deeper Learning Teams are Poised to Help Transform Kentucky Education

January 19, 2023

Adam Watson

Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning

Leading for Deeper Learning in Kentucky

September 27, 2022

Carmen Coleman

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation

A District-wide Personalized Professional Learning System to Advance Competency-Based Education

November 4, 2021

Dr. Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Crosswalking EdTech with Competency-Based Design Principles

July 14, 2021

Dr. Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Top 10 CompetencyWorks Blog Posts of 2020

January 1, 2021

Dr. Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

How Standards-Based Grading Led Us to Empower, Part 2: The Power of Evidence

October 23, 2020

Adam Watson

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

How Standards-Based Grading Led Us to Empower, Part 1: The Tyranny of 82%

October 21, 2020

Adam Watson

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Evaluate Quality, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

The Learning Sciences: How the Brain Was Built to Learn

July 30, 2020

James Neihof

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

The Challenges of a Large, Diverse School District and the Promises of Performance Assessment Micro-credentials

December 2, 2019

Justin Elliott

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field

Competency-Based Education in Rural Schools

March 29, 2019

Dr. Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started

A Conversation with Buddy Berry in Eminence Kentucky

September 21, 2015

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Learn Lessons from the Field

Performance-Based Assessment in Action

May 20, 2014

Carri Schneider

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field

How a District Ended Student Dropouts with Personalized Learning

April 22, 2014

Roger Cook

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Learn Lessons from the Field

Design Thinking

July 2, 2013

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started

Site Visit Takeaways

May 22, 2013

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Learn Lessons from the Field