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Learner-Centered Education
Public Group active 2 months, 1 week agoThis collaboration group consists of educators who have been closely involved with proficiency-based and other learner centered education and instructional practice efforts in Maine. Keywords: learner-centered; standards-based; proficiency-based; competency-based; project; expeditionary
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Don Siviski posted an update in the group
Learner-Centered Education 2 months, 1 week agoHere are the permanent addresses for our latest two videos — recorded at a Western Maine Educational Consortium event — showing how 11 districts are working collaboratively on learner-centered education:
http://www.maine.gov/doe/cbp/videos/wmec.html
http://www.maine.gov/doe/cbp/videos/wmec2.html
The case study explains the stories in more…[Read more]
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Don Siviski posted an update in the group
Learner-Centered Education 3 months, 3 weeks agoJohn
Thank you for presenting the argument before us since it seems to surface in every community where these discussions are occurring which is indeed healthy and essential to the process of public discourse and the cultural change of public education we are embracing and documenting.
My first premise is that “people only know what they know”…[Read more]
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Don Siviski posted an update in the group
Learner-Centered Education 3 months, 3 weeks agoResources from Competency Works (a series of Webinars)
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New! The Learning Edge: Supporting Student Success in a Competency-Based Learning Environment, a CompetencyWorks Issue Brief
Developing Rigorous…[Read more]
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Gary Chapin started the discussion topic DOE LCE Glossary Draft: Please read and comment in the group
Learner-Centered Education 3 months, 4 weeks agoView group discussionWe’ve created a draft of a DOE Proficiency-Based/Learner-Centered Glossary of terms. This isn’t an attempt to impose terminology on the field, just to make it clear what we mean when the DOE is talking about […]
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Gary Chapin uploaded the file: MDOE Glossary DRAFT to
Learner-Centered Education 3 months, 4 weeks agoPlease read and comment.
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John Armentrout posted an update in the group
Learner-Centered Education 4 months agoI had a very interesting, challenging and perhaps disturbing exchange with another group of educators recently. The question was “Do you really believe that all students can learn to proficiency through what you’ve identified as the learning targets required for graduation?” (Just in case you are wondering we all agreed identified students had…[Read more]
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It’s a bit intimidating to respond to this comment, as the correct answer is spelled out for me. But perhaps the teachers’ prevarication came from a place of frustration that I share. Sure, all students can learn. But can all students learn everything you want them to at the same rate and finish a standard in tme to graduate with physics…[Read more]
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Thanks for your feedback Christine. I understand your frustration, and perhaps there is no “correct answer”, yet the alternatives are difficult to accept. To lower or remove the requirement bar for individual students without an identified disability seems like giving up on them, and might set a precedent that becomes more about the adults…[Read more]
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I should add that I believe that clear, transparent curriculum as defined by common core, Next Gen Science standards, etc and the implications of a standards-based transcript cause additional anxiety as perhaps we can’t teach favorite topics and ignore others and average deficiencies at a course level any longer. We are shining the flashlight into…[Read more]
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Gary Chapin started the discussion topic What does 2013 look like for PB/LC education? in the group
Learner-Centered Education 4 months, 2 weeks agoView group discussionWhat are your dreams, plans, and, dare I say it, resolutions around proficiency-based/learner-centered education in 2013? What are your next steps?
Interesting thing from Competency […]
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Don Siviski posted an update in the group
Learner-Centered Education 4 months, 4 weeks agoThe title to the last post should have been
The Learning Edge
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Learner-Centered Education 4 months, 4 weeks agoThe iNACVOL and CompetencyWorks writers have collected significant data and recorded interesting and beneficial observations for Learner Centered districts to consider. The “paper” provides multi-state examples of such initiatives and also highlights Maine educators who have embraced this concept.
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Don Siviski posted an update in the group
Learner-Centered Education 5 months, 2 weeks agoGary raises some very interesting and compelling points. Proof of Concept does not always and only suggest test scores since most test are memory based on recall of facts figures names dates and places. This same concern was raised with the advent of the MLTI program and student laptops. Scores in writing did indeed increase because the tech-based…[Read more]
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Gary Chapin replied to the discussion topic Evidence, Proof, Research in the group
Learner-Centered Education 5 months, 2 weeks agoView group discussionSo I would be interested in how you all — in your districts, in the field — answer when faced with this question? Over time, do folks stop asking it, just as they stopped asking about “proof of concept” […]
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Gary Chapin started the discussion topic Evidence, Proof, Research in the group
Learner-Centered Education 5 months, 2 weeks agoView group discussionThe “proof of concept” question around standards-based/customized-learning issues have hovered around our work since the beginning. “How do we know this works? Where’s the proof? Where are the […]
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Don Siviski posted an update in the group
Learner-Centered Education 5 months, 3 weeks agoDESIGNING
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING
November 2012

”He who has not �irst laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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Don Siviski posted an update in the group
Learner-Centered Education 5 months, 3 weeks agoA very insightful article from a CCSSO resource
read enjoy sharehttps://www.yammer.com/innovationlabnetwork/#/Threads/index?type=following
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John Armentrout replied to the discussion topic Describing a student-centered, proficiency-based learning classroom in the group
Learner-Centered Education 6 months, 3 weeks agoView group discussionMark, seems you are referring to the transparency of the curriculum framework, learning goals and taxonomy and how they inter-relate. We’ve (re?)-discovered the importance of taxonomy as a key-stone or the glue […]
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Don Siviski posted an update in the group
Learner-Centered Education 6 months, 3 weeks agoHaving read Gary’s and Mark’s comments about Book Talks and reference material please consider an expanded challenge of trying to stay current with specific websites that get continually updated like CompetencyWorks and QEDfoundation. During a recent visit to the New York City iZone I learned of Engageny.org which is another terrific resource.…[Read more]
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Mark Kostin replied to the discussion topic Book Groups in the group
Learner-Centered Education 7 months agoView group discussionA few readings we’ve used with educators:
Ken O’Connor’s “How to grade for learning” and “A repair kit for grading”
Douglas Reeves’ “Making Standards Work: How to Implement Standards-Based Assessments […] -
Gary Chapin started the discussion topic Book Groups in the group
Learner-Centered Education 7 months agoView group discussionIn the case studies, I have found that reading groups come early and often in any discussions about moving schools towards LCE. While at RSU16, I led a Middle School discussion of ”Inevitable” that was a great […]
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Mark Kostin replied to the discussion topic Describing a student-centered, proficiency-based learning classroom in the group
Learner-Centered Education 7 months agoView group discussionI’d add – or at least make more explicit – the notion that the proficiencies students need to demonstrate during any of their learning experiences (wherever and whenever these take place) are clearly communicated […]
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It feels paradoxical but it isn’t. OUR ”growth” mindset means that we believe that even people who BELIEVE in a ”fixed” mindset continue to learn vibrantly through life. We all have experience of facing a ”fixed” opponent … only to have them come around.