
Self Paced Professional Development
Yesterday I led my first official professional development as Curriculum Coordinator!! I felt like make faculty member had been...

Voice and Choice
Teaching high school students is not easy. These students have so many things going on: college acceptances, drama with friends, fights...

More alignment! How to align resources to your proficiency scales.
In this installment of CBE bootcamp, we'll talk about how to use a proficiency scale to plan instruction and delivery of content. Some...

Aligning Assessments to Proficiency Scales
What I find most useful about proficiency scales is the fact that they make it so easy to design assessments. In my math class, I can...

Proficiency Scales
Just about everything that I'll say in this post either came from or was inspired by Marzano Research. I can't take credit for the ideas...

Breaking Down Content Standards
The first step in running a competency based classroom is choosing the content standards that your course will explore. It can be a...

What is Competency Based Education?
I do my best to teach my precalculus class using a "Competency Based" approach (CBE). I first learned about this approach to learning at...






