Tom Rooney sees competency-based education—supported by digital learning tools—as the path to building a better school district. The superintendent of the 4,200-student Lindsay Unified School District ...

The “competency learning" movement is gaining serious momentum: See the list of schools and districts that are adopting competency learning. But, based on the research literature in the psychology of ...

In 1996 when President Corazon Aquino’s governance commenced, about 350 district supervisors, principals and master teachers of Negros Oriental joined Provincial Governor Dr. Emilio Macias II and his ...

Windsor Locks Public Schools began by giving competency-based grades in kindergarten through fifth grade. “When this class hit sixth grade, it continued,” said Windsor Locks Principal Steve Swensen.

As K–12 educators seek ways to help students develop social-emotional skills, they are finding that some of the same tools they use in modern learning environments can also facilitate collaboration, ...

Leon County Schools has invested in early learning facilities to help ensure students are prepared for Kindergarten. The ...

When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more trauma and fear than a 4-year-old can cope with. Going to school in California was a big challenge ...

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

The Department of Education (DepEd) on Monday announced that it was eyeing a gradual review of the country’s “congested” learning competencies in the K-12 curriculum in a bid to equip learners with ...