Recommended Resources on Competency-Based Education from Folks Doing the Work

Once upon a time, there was only one book, Delivering on the Promise, where you could find an explanation of competency-based education (although they didn’t call it that in Chugach). Now there are more resources than anyone can possibly read while still doing your day job. Below are a number of resources prepared for a panel on the Journey Towards Competency-Based Progressions with Jeremiah Newell, Mobile Area Education Foundation, Chip Linehan, Building 21, and Nate McClennen, Teton Science Schools, at the New Schools Venture Fund Summit. I always value the recommendations from practitioners and want to share them with others. I’ve also added the growing list of books on competency-based education as well.

• Broader, Deeper Competencies for Student Success from NGLC My Ways
• Mindsetworks.
• Carol Dweck Revisits the “Growth Mindset
• Building21 Open Resources
• What is Performance-based Assessment?
• redesignu Performance Tasks
• Center for Collaborative Education Quality Performance Tasks
• End of Average by Todd Rose (and video)

Books on Competency-Based Education

• Competency-Based Education: A New Architecture for K-12 Schooling by Rose Colby
• Beyond Reform: Systemic Shifts Toward Personalized Learning by Lindsay Unified School District
• A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education: Ensure All Students Master Content by Designing and Implementing a PCBE System by Robert Marzano Jennifer Norford,‎ Michelle Finn and Douglas Finn
• Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work (Why You Should Switch to Student-Centered Learning for All) by Brian Stack and Jonathan Vander Els

From CompetencyWorks (just in case you haven’t seen them)

• Meeting Students Where They Are
• Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed
• Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders

What are your favorite resources or the ones that were most impactful to understanding and implementing personalized, competency-based education? Let us know!