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Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Can and Should Replace Tracking – Here’s Why
Explore a series of 13 comparisons to demonstrate how tracking can and should be replaced with personalized, competency-based learning.
Topics: Education Equity
Let’s Face It: Tracking Is Intentional Systemic Inequity
Why tracking is problematic and what we can do about it.
Topics: Education Equity
Connecting on a Human Level Starts with a Smile
Helping students feel valued and like they belong can start with an act as small as a smile.
Standards, Assessments, Access: How the Pandemic Provides an Opportunity for More Equitable Education
What do we want for schools? We can take advantage of the opportunity to rethink teaching and learning by exploring...
Topics: Education Equity
Everyone Has a “Why.” Do You Know the “Whys” in Your Learning Community?
Starting with the “Why” behind the decisions we make about teaching and learning is powerful.
Topics: 101
What We Want for Students We Have to Want for Teachers, Too
When a teacher feels trusted and is empowered, everyone wins.
Superintendent as a Verb
Superintendent may be your title, but what if we treated superintendent as a verb, instead?
Personalizing Learning: Don’t Lose Sight of Your Why
Personalizing learning is hard work. It’s important to not lose sight of why you’re doing it, and why it’s best...
Personalized, Competency-Based Learning for All Kids: The Time to Act is Now
"Our children are counting on us to deliver on the passion, the enthusiasm and the opportunities they aspire to achieve...
Topics: 101
From Vision to Reality: Personalized, Competency-Based Learning for All Kids
This publication is designed to help school districts take steps toward personalized, competency-based learning.
New Toolkit Offers Guidance on Crafting Your Vision for Personalized Learning
A strong vision will help you sustain personalized, competency-based learning at scale.
A Conversation About Creating a Future-Ready Vision for Your Community
Katie King and Virgel Hammonds discuss the ways KnowledgeWorks approaches visioning work.
Visioning Toolkit: Laying the Groundwork for a Community-Wide Vision for Personalized Learning
A community-wide vision for personalized learning is essential for a successful implementation of personalized learning.
Topics: 101, Community Partnerships, Education Policy, ESSA, Systems Change, Vision and Culture
One Standard, Two Students: What Demonstrating Mastery Looks Like
In a traditional classroom, every students takes a test, writes a paper or gives a presentation to satisfy the same...
How One Graduate Helped Shape Her Education
It’s graduation season, and one of the most rewarding experiences is hearing about the successes of learners I’ve had the...
Competency-Based Education: Helping One Graduate to Help Others
Graduation is a special time of year, and it’s great to see how our learners are doing exceptional things as...
2017 Experience Conference: Making Dreams Come True
Join education leaders at the 2017 KnowledgeWorks Experience Conference to network and discuss personalized learning, early college and CBE.
Topics: Early College High School
A look into the classroom: Competency vs. traditional education
Our new video, “Competency Education and Personalized Learning,” explores the differences between competency-based and traditional school models.
The Conditions Necessary to Move from a Traditional School District to a True Learning Community
With the right conditions all in place, you can transition from a traditional school district to a true learning community.
4 Ways to Choose a Better Curriculum
Curriculum should deliver on what a learning community really needs to support its vision for learning - and selected with...
All Kids Can Learn: Three Key Tenets for Educators
We believe that: all kids can learn, can achieve at high levels, and can learn in different ways and different...
Personalizing Learning Today Prepares Students for Tomorrow
We need to prepare students not for the world they’re living in when they enter the classroom at 5 years...
Topics: Future of Learning
What does competency-based instruction look like, anyway?
Competency-based education engages students in meaningful ways and empowers them to take ownership of their learning. But what does it...
It’s Elemental: An #EdTech Roundup
Much like the scientific periodic table is organized into categories, the Periodic Table of #EdTech organizes resources by type of...
Topics: Early College High School
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