by reDesign | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog, Competency-based Learning, Curriculum, Pedagogy
Can you imagine walking into a library, in search of a particular book, to find the library has no classification system in place? Or what about arriving at the airport, passing through security, and discovering there are no flight information display systems or gate...
by reDesign | Aug 28, 2018 | Assessment, Blog, Competency-based Learning
No matter what kind of system you teach in – assessment – knowing what your students know and are able to do – is essential to understanding what students are learning. In mastery-based systems, in particular, where the focus shifts from time-based completion to...
by reDesign | Jun 11, 2017 | Blog, Competency-based Learning
A Promising Competency-based Model for Historically Marginalized Students Competency-based education models are complicated organisms, and staging their development and growth is generally a multi-year task, whether one is a launching a new school or re-envisioning an...
by reDesign | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog, Competency-based Learning, Leadership, School Design
This blog originally appeared on The Launch Pad, January 5, 2016. As I see it, the biggest challenge we face in American public schools today is this: we’ve got an antiquated factory-based school model, and a workforce that has proven particularly effective in...
