Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

An option several school districts I converse with are trying is called “mastery-based learning” — MBL. Learning is personalized, based on school standards. Student achievement is evaluated against school learning standards and performance expectations. What is MBL. What does it look like?

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Defined Learning

JANUARY 24, 2024

Learn how Linday Unified School District, a rural school district located in California, created and implemented a competency-based, project-based learning system with the help of Defined Learning.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. But I thought [online learning] is a card we can play. But at some point, the challenge I put on the team was, How do we compete against Phoenix? We want to learn about the good things they do.

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Middle Web

MARCH 21, 2022

Then her principal set her on a path of discovery that’s led to competency based learning and students eagerly self-grading. For much of her career, middle level teacher Stephanie Farley felt confounded when students “told me they didn’t understand where their grades came from.”

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STEM Discovery Education

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Keep reading for highlights of our key sessions , which led to open, honest conversations on topics like equity in education, funding, and competency-based learning systems. Marzano ’s vision for K–12 education focuses on one simple truth: most schools can be highly effective in promoting student learning.

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STEM Discovery Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Marzano ’s vision for K–12 education focuses on one simple truth: most schools can be highly effective in promoting student learning. As Dr. Marzano noted, competency-based learning systems can be quite the paradigm shift, but “we’re standing at the cusp of real change.” The first bucket was equipment in the classroom.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

To do competency-based education means unlearning the paradigms of education for faculty, the way they teach students, the way [students] learn. She runs five competency-based degree programs, including a bachelor’s degree in general studies, serving close to 1,000 students, and she says they’re going well.

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