Pioneers of Personalized Education: Westminster Public Schools and the Pursuit of Competency-Based Learning (a Blueprint for Competency-Based Learning) Marzano Resources ed. [Minkštas viršelis]

"Competency-based learning promises exponential growth, success, and rewards for schools seeking to better serve their students. However, without a solid framework to guide schools through change from traditional models of practice, achieving a competency-based learning system may seem like a pipe dream-an inspiring, but ultimately unattainable, ideal. But it can be realized! In Pioneers of Personalized Education: Westminster Public Schools and the Pursuit of Competency-Based Learning, authors Jeni Gotto, Oliver Grenham, Brian J. Kosena, Robert J. Marzano, and Pamela Swanson share the success of Westminster Public Schools through the framework they developed when pursuing a competency-based learning system. This framework, the WPS Learning Model, offers five core values and practices teachers and administrators can adopt to move their schools toward new models of thinking, teaching, and connecting with students. With the help of supportive tools and other insightful lessons learned along WPS' transformative journey toward competency-based learning, readers who adopt the WPS Learning Model will take the initial steps in charting their own schools' course towards a new model of engaged impactful learning"-- Provided by publisher.

Westminster Public Schools (WPS) in Colorado has embarked on a transformative journey toward competency-based education. Through strategic planning and continuous improvement, WPS developed a learner-centered system prioritizing personalized learning and student agency. Their road map—rooted in shared vision and second-order change—highlights successes and challenges, offering insights on scheduling, school leadership, and systems to guide others in achieving high reliability and impactful school reform.

K–12 school and district leaders can use this book to:

• Understand a sustainable framework that supports continued growth and development
• Envision schools and classrooms as spaces that prioritize students and their learning experiences
• Learn how teachers, students, and the community can each have a meaningful voice in the operation of schools and districts
• Discover new systems for competency-based instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting
• Cultivate a vision for navigating transition and change

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Shared Vision
Chapter 2: Leadership at All Levels
Chapter 3: Competency-Based Design
Chapter 4: Learner-Centered Classroom
Chapter 5: Continuous Improvement
Chapter 6: Bridging Continuous Improvement to High Reliability
Epilogue
References
Index