by Melissa Slater | Aug 10, 2021 | Blog, Competency-based Learning, Featured Insights, System Transformation
By Melissa Slater reDesign has partnered with the South Carolina Department of Education’s Office of Personalized Learning to support educators in creating a sustainable learner-centered model, supporting all students in achieving the Profile of the SC...
by Sydney Schaef | Jul 14, 2021 | Blog, Curriculum and Assessment Reimagined
“This article was originally published in The 74 Million.” It was a blue sky kind of day in Boise, Idaho. Kelly Brady, then-director of the Idaho Mastery Education Network, took the stage. Before a roomful of hundreds of educators, she began to tell the...
by Sydney Schaef | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, Curriculum and Assessment Reimagined
By Sydney Schaef Issue(s): State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction Orignally published by: Aurora Institute This summer, from June 27 – July 1,...
by Sydney Schaef | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog, Curriculum and Assessment Reimagined
By Sydney Schaef In an earlier post, my colleagues Jon Altbergs and Laurie Gagnon named the challenge of teaching all of the current standards in a way that is meaningful and authentic for students. In response, I’d like to share why and how we’re getting...
by reDesign | Oct 16, 2016 | Blog, Competency-based Learning, System Transformation
By Sydney Schaef, Ed.D., M.B.A. Though often described interchangeably, competencies and standards are in some ways worlds apart. If you’re asking this question, then well done, you! This question is a bridge from the old world order (of formal...
