Policy Background

• Report from VT AOE: Status of Proficiency - Based Graduation Requirements in Vermont High Schools  (2017)
• Reaching the Tipping Point and the Snapshot of Vermont (CompetencyWorks, 2016).    
   Board of Education adopted new Education Quality Standards that embrace proficiency-based education, Dec. 2013. 
• Flexible Pathways Initiative statute enacted, June 2013.
• Education Quality Standards adopted April 2014
• Agency of Education released Personalized Learning Plans materials, April 2014 
• Districts may use competency-based credits or time-based credits. (CFAT 50-State Scan of Course Credit Policies 2013)

Evidence of Improved Achievement, Attainment, or Cost-Effectiveness: No information at this time (May 2014)

Networks and Resources

• Member, ACHIEVE Competency-based Pathways State Partnership network, 2014
• Partnership for Change, Burlington and Winooski
• Teacher licensing standards
• Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) Alternate Assessment Systems
• Vermont Alternate Assessment Portfolio
• Middle Grades Collaborative -- working with Protean to create new LMS (Dec 2015)
• Videos and case studies (2017) and Vermont stories (2017)
• Quality Design Principles - Purpose and Culture 

Districts and Schools:

• Burlington (article Deb 2016)
• Champlain Valley Union (article Feb 2016)
• Vergennes Union High School
• Mount Anthony Union High School (haven't visited or been documented)
• Big Picture South Burlington
• Article in the Atlantic
• Central Vermont BP Academy of Rochester High School,  Rochester (Big Picture Learning school)
• Chittenden South Supervisory Union
• CVU School Board News: Update on Standards Based Learning at CVU 
• Franklin West Supervisory Union article on students involved in hiring at Fletcher Elementary
• Stowe
• Article on People's Academy (2017)
• Winooski School District video on student-centered learning (very diverse student body). Winooski School District is focusing on shifting to deeper learning (with support from 2Revs). (2016 from 2Revs newsletter).  

In the News

The quiet revolution in the schoolhouse

Video on Flexible Pathways looking at six students (2017)

Blogs

• Vermont Breakaway on Proficiency-Based Policy - Chris Sturgis, Dec. 2014

Collegiate Support and the Proficiency Pledge

• Castleton State College
• Community College of Vermont
• Johnson State College
• Lyndon State College
• University of Vermont
• Vermont State Colleges
• Vermont Technical College