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SYMPOSIUM POP UP PROBLEM OF PRACTICE

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2023 | 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM

Creating Easy-To-Use Learning Experiences That Increase CBE Buy-In

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PRESENTERS:

• Avery Rueb, Vanier College
• Sandra Moumoutjis, Building 21

Today’s Goals

• Discuss Barriers to CBE Adoption (5 min)
• Give Feedback on our 3 Ideas (10 min)
• Brainstorm More Ideas (30 min)
• Present Ideas and Strategize (15 min)

Problem Frame

How do we give learning communities more options

for uncovering the fun and power of CBE?

What is CBE?

 Competency-based education is a system in which:

• Students are empowered daily to make 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.
• Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.
• Students progress based on evidence of mastery, 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.

A competency-based school should implement all seven elements of the definition. Strong implementation also requires policies, pedagogy, structures, and culture that support every student. 

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Competency Continuum

Link to Building 21 Student Competency Framework

Durable Skills

3 Ideas to Increase CBE Buy-In

What do you think?

Idea #1: What we are already doing

• Example: Set Goals
• Time: 1-4 weeks
• Teachers can:
• Deepen relationships with students
• Uncover benefits of competency-based learning
• Experience rigorous and transparent expectations for students

Idea #2: Let’s get the teachers working together

• Example: Norming Activity (click here)
• Teachers Can:
• Uncover benefits of competency-based learning
• Experience rigorous and transparent expectations
• Deepen relationships with CBE teachers around the world
• Time: 2 hours

Idea #3: Adapt what already exists

• Examples: PBL Works Out of the Gate Projects, Starting a Business, Crosswalk with Building 21
• Teachers Can:
• Uncover benefits of competency-based learning
• Experience rigorous and transparent expectations
• Deepen relationships with students
• See how to empower students to make choices about their learning
• Time: 15-20 hours

Let’s Brainstorm

Let’s Brainstorm

• Goal: Brainstorm one strategy for increasing CBE buy-in with an easy-to-use activity
• Time: 25 minutes
• Product: a 90-second pitch on your activity
• Connections to the 7 elements of CBE definition

Let’s Share Our Ideas

Contact Us

Sandra Moumoutjis

Avery Rueb

rueba@vaniercollege.qc.ca

Montreal, QC

sandra@b-21.org

Boston, MA

Additional Resources

Click here if you are interested in viewing more CBE resources.

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Thank you for joining us!�Share your thoughts by participating in our one-minute poll: surveymonkey.com/r/Aurora_10-17_Buy-In

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