The education field is regularly plagued by the need for common definitions as new practices emerge. As we’ve seen with personalized learning, ambiguous terms for ambitious ideas can create widespread ...

Grit. Open. Disruptive innovation. Powerful ideas that seem simple in print quickly take on new, and potentially divergent, meanings as they are applied to policy and practice. Some terms, including ...

An integrated pattern of learned beliefs, values and behaviors that can be shared among groups Elements of cultural competency: personal identification, language, thoughts, communications, actions, ...

Andrea Miranda didn’t think traditional four-year college was in her future when she graduated from high school in Massachusetts in 2010. It was expensive, especially compared with free college in ...

I met with the "father" of the therapeutic community, Dr. Maxwell Jones[1]. Jones started the first therapeutic community in England in the 1940s, designed for returning veterans from the Second World ...

Competency-based education is slowly catching on, with the help of policies that give permission for schools in every state to adopt it. But the learning model—a series of non-traditional approaches ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. I’ve continued to go back to Tony Wan’s piece, Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining ...

The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s outcomes-focused approach to competence could shift responsibility for education and training on providers and employers. Director of education and training Julie ...