“I Used to Think”
This video from the Sanford Public School features Sanford teachers discussing their process of continuously learning to adjust their classroom practices in order to provide student-centered, proficiency-based learning experiences for and with their students. Source Organization: Sanford School Department
“Meeting Standards in a Student-Centered, Proficiency-based Classroom”
This video from the Sanford Public Schools, “Meeting Standards in a Student-Centered, Proficiency-Based Classroom” features students speaking about their experiences in a proficiency-based classroom. Source Organization: Sanford School Department
Curriculum & Instruction – Sanford Public School
The Sanford Public School provides public details about their curriculum and instructional approach with resources for parents, students, and staff. Source Organization: Sanford School Department Visit the Resource
Ready for College and Career
The report finds that a range of cross-cutting skills like communication, innovation and self-regulation are crucial to student success. Student-centered approaches to learning can equip students with a range of skills necessary to succeed on the Common Core State Standards exams, in college, and in their careers. Source Organization: The Nellie Mae Education Foundation VISIT… Read More ›
Leadership in Action: What is Profiency-Based Grading?
This issue brief from the New England Secondary School Consortium outlines what separates proficiency-based grading from traditional grading. Source Organization: New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) Visit the Resource
Necessary for Success: Building Mastery of World-Class Skills
This issue brief describes competency-based systems and reforms in districts and schools from Maine to Florida, and makes suggestions for education leaders around changing policy, fostering progressive public discourse, and supporting teachers. Source Organization: CompetencyWorks VISIT THE RESOURCE
Re-Engineering Information Education Technology Design Considerations for Competency Education
This brief addresses information education technology, as it relates to competency education, detailing the classroom, district, and state-level requirements of a student-centered system. The authors of the report analyze the knowledge of what makes up an effective competency-based information system. Source Organization: CompetencyWorks VISIT THE RESOURCE
Leadership in Action: How does Proficiency-based Learning Work?
This issue brief from the New England Secondary School Consortium’s Leadership in Action series outlines how a proficiency-based learning model ensures that all learners graduate high school prepared for success in college and beyond. Source Organization:New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) Visit the Resource
More Efficient High Schools in Maine: Emerging Student-Centered Learning Communities
More Efficient High Schools in Maine: Emerging Student-Centered Learning Communities explores whether schools can be high performing, efficient, and student-centered at the same time. Seven of Maine’s high schools were selected for the study, of which five were classified as “more efficient” by exhibiting higher student academic performance and a higher return on spending. Findings… Read More ›
Getting Down to Dollars and Cents: What Do School Districts Spend to Deliver Student-Centered Learning?
This report provides a critical foundation for the delivery of student-centered learning by exploring three questions: How is student-centered learning delivered? What resources are needed to implement student-centered learning? How does district spending on student-centered learning compare with spending on traditional schools? Findings show that the implementation of student-centered approaches can be tailored and affordable… Read More ›
Making Mastery Work
Making Mastery Work: A Close-Up View of Competency Education focuses on the experiences of New England schools that are ahead of the curve in implementing rigorous, competency-based models of education. At these schools, learning happens at different times in a variety of settings, and progress is demonstrated by mastery of content, not merely grade promotion.… Read More ›
Aligning Competencies with the Common Core
This video from CompetencyWorks and iNACOL is a webinar about how Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA), a school designed to serve over-age and undercredited students, aligned their competencies to the Common Core State Standards. The video also elucidates how BDEA has fine-tuned its practices to accelerate learning for students with a wide differentiation of skills and… Read More ›