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Tracking Progress and Metacognition

When technology and the internet make raw information so readily accessible, we as teachers need to shift our focus from teaching content...

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...

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...

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