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
Weaving Skills Ropes: Using Metaphor to Enhance Understanding of Skills and Learning
This report from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story of Education project presents “Weaving Skill Ropes” as an explanatory metaphor to help explain the concepts of skills and learning–specifically, what skills students need to succeed in a 21st century economy, how these skills are learned, and how cognitive and emotional learning skills are related. Source Organization:… Read More ›
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
Expanding Equity Through More and Better Learning Time
This article from VUE (Voices in Urban Education) discusses the More and Better Learning Time initiative which moves toward education equity by recognizing that though we all value extended and improved learning time, not all students have the resources to make it possible. College readiness calls for tapping the resources of the whole community — higher education,… Read More ›
How Media Portray Learning Space and Time
This report from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story on Education Project analyzes and identifies media frames regarding learning space and time. Key features of the media’s coverage of learning space and time include: Innovation in learning space and time is a private sector enterprise Global competition is the reason to reform learning space and time… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
“More than a Test Score” Campaign
The Providence Student Union challenged local community leaders to take an abbreviated version of the NECAP test (a graduation requirement). The adult test-takers’ results mirrored the results in Providence high schools; almost 60% received “substantially below proficient” and would be at risk of not receiving a diploma. Source Organization: Providence Student Union Visit the Resource
Expanded Learning Opportunities
This video was filmed, edited, and produced by high school youth employed at The Hub in Providence. It is an introduction to Providence’s Expanded Learning Opportunities. Source Organization: The Providence After School Alliance