What is Competency Based Learning?

• Agency is honored by learners making important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning.

• Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields, timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.

• Learners receive timely, individualized support based on their unique learning needs.

• Learners progress based on evidence of competency, not seat time.

• Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.

• Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.

• Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.

*Adapted from Aurora Institute's Definition of Competency Based Learning.

How is personalized-competency based learning connected to our strategic plan?

PCBL is a framework that allows learners to be agents of their own learning: 

• Learners make choices based on their needs and learning progression.

• Learners provide evidence of progress on competencies to assess their level of learning. 

• Learners connect to their learning based on their strengths, interests, and spark.

• Learners become informed problem solvers able to reflect and revise throughout their learning experience.