CompetencyWorks New Zealand  Series (2018)

The CompetencyWorks New Zealand series based on Chris Sturgis' site visits in 2018 is listed below followed by Denise Tobin Airola's articles from the Arkansas trip in 2017.

• Part 1 – Snaps from Aotearoa New Zealand
• Part 2 – Why New Zealand? A Primer on the NZ Education System
• Part 3 – Pt. England Primary: Making Sense of the New Zealand Curriculum
• Part 4 – Pt. England Primary: Creating a Culture of Respect, Belonging and Learning
• Part 5 – Pt. England Primary: Manaiakalani, The Hook from Heaven
• Part 6 – Pt. England Primary: Understanding Where Students Are
• Part 7 – Pt. England Primary: Gifting Language
• Part 8 – The Cherry or the Orchard
• Part 9 – Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand: Defining Lifelong Learning
• Part 10 – Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand: Key Competencies
• Part 11 – Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand: Credentialing Learning
• Part 12 – Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand: NCEA
• Part 13 - How Competency-Based is New Zealand?

Denise Tobin Airola's site visit to New Zealand in 2017:

• Part 1 – Identity, Relationships, and Agency: Powering Learning in New Zealand
• Part 2 – Freemans Bay: Honoring Diversity and Māori Culture
• Part 3 – A Visit with the ‘Westies’–Day 2 in New Zealand
• Part 4 - Leaving Single Cell Behind: Moving from Isolation to Flexible Collaboration

What's Happening Around the World

These are news clips from other countries as they consider more competency-based approaches.

2018

• China
• China
• Singapore changing system - not CBE; but worth paying attention to
• Rwanda
• on curriculum
• Borneo and another article
• Latvia
• more on Lavia

2017

• England Department of Education releases Competency Framework for Governance: Link to Competency Framework for Governance
• Australia (higher ed)
• Vietnam
• Ireland
• Canada
• Kenya
• Kenya
• Kenya
• Kenya - mentions competency-based assessments
• Singapore American School
• Germany partnering with Kenya on competency-based training (post-secondary) 
• Belize
• Jamaica
• Tajikstan

2016

• First World Summit on Competency-Based Education
• Seychelles -- it sounds like the classroom mastery-based approach of the 1980's rather than a structural change
• Vietnam social work 
• Canada introducing competencies (high level ones that are cross-curricular)
• Canada revamping medical education to become competency-based
• Guam's first charter school is using competency-based credits. 
• Yukon in British Columbia
• Rwanda exploring learner-centered, competency-based
• Nigeria interested in CBE in higher education
• Latvia interested in CBE
• Kenya
• UK interested in mastery-based math used in Singapore
• The Handbook for Internal Quality Management in Competence-Based Higher Education includes a procedure designed to help institutions reflect on the best way to implement an internal quality management system suited specifically to competence-based learning and teaching through a comprehensive approach which addresses different elements of a competence-based teaching and learning process such as curriculum, teaching and assessment methods, and students’ learning strategies. The handbook is just one part of the larger European Toolkit for Internal Quality Management in Competence-Based Higher Education, a later outcome of the project.
• Rwanda interested in cbe curriculum

Resources Related to An International Study in Competency Education: Postcards by Abroad.

In 2014, CompetencyWorks released An International Study in Competency Education: Postcards by Abroad. Attached is further reading if you would like to learn more about the countries highlighted in the paper.   

• Lessons from PISA 2012 for the United States: Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education, OECD (2013).
• Benchmarking for Success: Ensuring U.S. Students Receive a World-Class Education, NGA (2008).
• Darling-Hammond, L. Benchmarking Learning Systems: Student Performance Assessment in International Context, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (2010).
• Developing Key Competences at School in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Policy, Eurydice Report (2012).
• The Common Ground Project (Brussels).
• APEC: List of different ways of structuring competencies including EU, Asia Society and others.
• European Union: Key competencies for lifelong learning.
• NCEE: Center on International Education Benchmarking.
• Rachel Spronken-Smith. "Undergraduate Research and Inquiry-based Learning: Is There a Difference? Insights from Research in New Zealand,"Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly. Volume 30, Number 4 (2010). (Recommended by Paul Leather.)

UNESCO

• Past and Current Communities of Practice Activities on Competency-based Approaches.
• Forums on competency education (2005-2010).
• Complex Knowledge and Education Competences.
• Competency-based Approaches in French-speaking Africa (in French).
• Learning: The Treasure Within: Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century.
• Pillars That Could Change Education (editorial from Kenya discussing Learning: The Treasure Within).

Finland

• Sahlberg, P. Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? New York: Teachers College Press (2011).
• Finland: Teacher and Principal Quality, Center on International Benchmarking website, NCEE.
• Finnish Education in a Nutshell, Ministry of Education and Culture.

British Columbia (Canada)

• Rethinking Curriculum, BC Ministry of Education website.
• Enabling Innovation: Transforming Curriculum and Assessment, BC Ministry of Education (2012).
• Learning Standards and Flexible Learning Environments, BC Ministry of Education website.
• Exploring Curriculum Design, BC Ministry of Education (2013).
• Students, Thomas Haney Secondary School website.
• Sherlock, T. “A showcase school: Thomas Haney secondary offers alternative learning structure,” The Vancouver Sun (October 25, 2013).

Columbia

• Fontan Colegio in Bogota
  

New Zealand

• The NZ Education Review Office (ERO):
•  NZ School Evaluation Indicators: Effective Practice for Improvement and Learner Success: http://www.ero.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/ERO-School-Evaluation-Indicators-Web-FINAL.pdf
• NZ Effective School Evaluation: How to do and use internal evaluation for improvement:http://www.ero.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Effective-School-Evaluation-web.pdf
• The Ministry of Education is in charge of setting the National Curriculum Framework (and underlying national standards):http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/The-New-Zealand-Curriculum
• Resources from Sally Boyd
• http://www.nzcer.org.nz/research/sally-boyd
• http://www.nzcer.org.nz/research/publications/its-who-we-are-stories-practice-and-change-pb4l-school-wide-schools
• http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/special_education/its-who-we-are-stories-of-practice-and-change-pb4l-school-wide-schools

• Nusche, D. et al. OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: New Zealand, OECD Publishing (2011).
• Overall Teacher Judgement, NZ Ministry of Education website.
• The New Zealand Curriculum, NZ Ministry of Education website.

Scotland

• Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland website.
• Curriculum for Excellence: Numeracy and Mathematics – Experiences and Outcomes, Education Scotland.
• Curriculum levels, Education Scotland website.

Sweden

• Kunskapsskolan website.
• Frequently Asked Questions, Kunskapsskolan.

Singapore and Shanghai (Asia)

• Scaling Up Twenty-First-Century Teaching (webinar), Alliance for Excellent Education (April 10, 2014).
• Chinese Lessons: Shanghai’s Rise to the Top of the PISA League Tables, CIEB (2014).
• Asia Society website.

England

• Cornwallis Academy website.
• An Introduction to Learning Plazas at Cornwallis Academy, YouTube (video).
• Welcome to Cornwallis Academy, Future Schools Trust (presentation) (2011).

Scotland

• Kyle Academy website.
• Seith, E. Attainment - How one school is closing the gap, TESS (October 18, 2013).