Is a Standard a Competency? (Part 1)
Read Part 2 or take a look at New Hampshire’s ELA and Math Competencies The answer simply is ‘no’. Standards represent the ‘what’ of school—what we need to know, and what we need to be able to do....
View ArticleIs a Standard a Competency? (Part 2)
Read Part 1 or take a look at New Hampshire’s ELA and Math Competencies Following up on the first post on this topic, I go deeper in looking at the relationship between standards and competencies. I...
View ArticleLaunching School Boards into the 21st Century
Several weeks ago, I attended the CCSSO Innovation Lab Network meeting as a member of the New Hampshire team. At that meeting, Nick Donahue of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation spoke about how we...
View ArticleTo Dream the Impossible Dream?
In the NCLB era of disaggregated student achievement data, we have zoomed in on our population of struggling learners, grouped into their age appropriate cohort. That up close and personal view of our...
View ArticleFraming the Learning in the Blended Learning Environment
As more models for blended and online learning emerge into the mainstream of educational design, there is still some undercurrent of thought that these models have emerged because students are not...
View ArticleCompetency Education: The Solution to Retention
Recently a group of teachers was working on performance tasks and assessments. They were aligning their units of study to competencies based on the Common Core State Standards. An interesting...
View ArticleAudacious Thinking
I was recently reading about Google X. We often think of the Google workplace as the sandbox of Millennials. It is filled with spaces for work and play and sets the pace for work-space design that...
View ArticleWhat is the Story that You Will Tell of Your Journey?
“Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound……” ….Superman? No, not really. Looking back over the past several years in competency education, perhaps SuperPioneer is a more apt superhero symbol. In...
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