Getting Started

The following resources offer a starting point for your school's or district's transformation to competency education.

 

Recommended Reading

 

Understanding Terms and Concepts

• Glossaries
• Glossary of Education Reform - Great Schools Partnership
• You can find a glossary at the end of Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education by Chris Sturgis and Katherine Casey
• LearningEdge offers responses and resources on FAQ

 

• Competency Education
• Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education by Chris Sturgis and Katherine Casey includes a primer on CBE at the beginning
• 10 distinguishing features of CBE 
• 10 Principles of Competency Education - Great Schools Partnership

 

 

Implementation Resources

• Breaking with Tradition by Brian Stack and Jonathan Vander Els;
• Competency-Based Education: A New Architecture for K-12 Schooling by Rose Colby; and
• A Handbook for Competency-Based Education by Robert J. Marzano, Jennifer S. Norford, Michelle Finn, Douglas Finn III.

 

 

Strategic and Action Plans

• Lindsay Unified School District Strategic Design (third box, middle column)
• Maine’s RSU 2's Standards-Based, Learner-Centered Framework - questions districts and schools will need to rethink
• RSU 2's Best Practices rubric 
• RSU 2's journey to competency education
• Maine's Center for Best Practices - three case studies 
• RSU 18's presentation to the school board