How Innovations Flourish: Competency-Based Education in US and New Zealand

by Chris Sturgis

Competency-based education and its partner, personalized learning, are expanding across the U.S as well as in pockets of innovation around the world.

Below are short case studies from schools in the U.S. and in Aotearoa New Zealand to give you a feel for what a personalized, competency-based approach to education can look like…… Read More

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Still Learning from Delivering on the Promise

It continues to be a pleasure to read the story of Chugach School District’s journey of transformation described in Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution (DeLorenzo, Battino, Schreiber, and Carrio, 2009). Even though the term competency-based education is not mentioned once in the book,….. Read More

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Congrats to Dr. Swanson

by Chris Sturgis

I just heard that Westminster (formerly Adams 50) Public School’s superintendent Pamela Swanson has been picked as the 2020 Superintendent of the Year by the Colorado Association of School Executives. Congrats! It’s wonderful to see Swanson (and her team’s) leadership recognized. They’ve been working at developing a personalized,….. Read More

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It’s INACOL Time…Maybe for the Last Time?

by Chris Sturgis

Word is that iNACOL is finally going to announce a new name at next week’s Symposium in Palm Springs. Thank goodness. It’s been challenging for the field to have one of the biggest gatherings to happen under an umbrella of online learning. It’s made it much more difficult for us to talk about technology as a tool not a solution when one of the leading organizations in competency education emphasizes online delivery modes…… Read More

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