What if educational programs designed curriculum with the end in mind, teaching and assessing only the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the workplace and broader life applications? Competency-Based Education (CBE) provides an answer to questions such as this one that key stakeholders such as employers, learners, parents, and educators…

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…

This guide is designed to help school team design learning that equitably honors the unique assets and needs of students. Learning must be designed with students at the center. It must be personalized to students' unique assets, interests, identities, and aspirations--and designed with their ideas and voices at the table. Education Evolving has…

Digital learning is defined as "any instructional practice that effectively uses technology to strengthen a student's learning experience and encompasses a wide spectrum of tools and practices." This "School Leader Digital Learning Guide" is a resource to help school leaders consider, plan, fund, implement, maintain, and adapt…

A Guide to Integrating Employability in Higher Education Institutions is designed to support the implementation of the Commonwealth of Learning's Employability Model in higher education institutions. The guide helps higher education institutions to develop employability strategies and teams to carefully consider how diverse practices -- throughout…

In response to the issues of global competition, the aging workforce, and the rapid rate of technological innovation and how today's professionals must meet these challenges, an examination is made of the key developmental approaches to maintaining and enhancing the knowledge and skills of midcareer and senior-level professionals. Twenty-one…

Presented in the second volume on the Home-Oriented Preschool Education project are responses of a National Panel of Child Development scholars to a "prime competency list" for normal children up to 6-years-old. The competencies, drawn from a literature search, include behaviors in five categories: classification, communication,…

The general format of a representative learning module is presented to provide a guide for teachers attempting to construct their own modules. A statement of need for such a project is followed by an examination of the individual components making up most learning modules: (1) organizational numbering system; (2) general statement; (3) task…

From July, 1974 to June, 1977, a federally funded project to develop a competency based training program for human service workers was run at Elgin Mental Health Center, a 750-bed inpatient, state psychiatric facility. During the course of the project, over 500 discrete tasks were identified which such workers perform. Tasks were grouped into…

Intended for use by teachers on the junior high and high school levels, this curriculum guide, which is one in a series of guides for consumer and homemaking education in Kentucky, outlines four courses in the area of personal and family development. The seventh grade level unit discusses the influence of health habits on personal appearance and…

A K-12 health education curriculum can be developed in a school district as a result of using this Planning Resource. Part I offers a practical curriculum planning process. Part II identifies broad health competencies in four major content areas: mental health, physical health, safety and community health. Part III offers references, and includes…

This handbook was written primarily to assist module developers working in the Kentucky Competency-Based Curriculum Project. It was also prepared to help module developers in other areas of education as well as to help administrators who would be installing programs of this type in their schools. This handbook provides an explanation of…

This Coordinator's Guide accompanies the module Developing and Conducting In-Service Programs. It defines the coordinator's role from four aspects: setting the tone, setting the pace, facilitating the discussion, and evaluating. Suggestions for preparing and presenting the workshop are offered. The actual text is given in the accompanying module,…

This module is directed toward those persons who will be responsiblie for providing inservice programs for career guidance personnel. The module will help participants increase their understanding of the stages, activities and issues involved in developing an in-service program and of the competencies required. Upon completion of this module the…

This Coordinator's Guide accompanies the module Developing Effective Public Relations. It defines the coordinator's role from four aspects: setting the tone, setting the pace, facilitating the discussion, and evaluating. Suggestions for preparing and presenting the workshop are offered. The actual text is in the accompanying module, but the…