It’s Not a Matter of Time:
Competency-based
Learning Summit
March 3-4, 2011
Welcome and Warm Up
Gene Wilhoit, CCSSO
Susan Patrick, iNACOL
Chris Sturgis, MetisNet
March 3: 8:30 – 9:00
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Resources
• Conference Wiki
https://sites.google.com/site/competenc
ybasedlearningsummit/home
• Email addresses:
Chris Sturgis: chris@metisnet.net
Susan Patrick: spatrick@inacol.org
Creating a Culture of Learning: The
Foundation of Competency-based
Pathways
Interactive discussion facilitated by
Richard DeLorenzo,
Re-Inventing Schools Coalition
March 3: 9:00 – 11:00
Delivering on the
Promise
“Bringing
hope to all of our children”
Richard DeLorenzo
RISC Foundation
RISC 2010
Group Dynamics
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Groups of 6-8
Introduce yourself to your team
What role do you currently play?
What are you excited/challenged
about thus far on your journey?
• What are hoping to take away
from this gathering?
Delivering on the Promise
What is the promise?
Every child will…
• understand how he/she learns best
• work at his/her instructional level and
move to the next when mastery has been
attained
• be able to navigate and monitor his/her
learning within a transparent curriculum
with or without a teacher
• be able to compete in the global economy
©RISC 2010
What is your definition of a
competency-based system?
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Clarify the task
Reflect individually
Impact on your system
Share with your group
©RISC 2010
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learner-centered environment,
working at their developmental levels and
advancing only when they have demonstrated
©RISC 2010
proficiency.
Key Components of a Competency-Based System
Variety of
Instruction
Competency-based
Reporting
Transparent
Standards
Multiple Assessments
Taking time to reflect on
your learning
• Brainstorm a list of outcomes that
you would like to walk away with.
• Prioritize them and how will you
know when you are successful
• Share them with an elbow partner
©Whittle 2006
RISC 2010
Learning for some
• Every day 7,000 students
drop out of school!
• 15,000,000 students fail to
reach proficiency annually in
America.
©Whittle 2006
Learning for some
• 1,000 students will drop out
during my presentation
• 14,000 during this conference
©RISC 2010
Jordan’s
Project
Building a
new
orphanage
in Ghana
2011
RISC 2010
Chugach profile 1994
• REAA school district which covers
22,000 square miles
• Unemployment = 52.3%
• Poverty level = 75.7%
• 90% of our students could not read at
grade level
• One university graduate in 20 years
• 50% teacher attrition rate
©RISC 2010
What do you believe about student
learning?
• The current system creates many
barriers for students to accelerate.
• Students learn best when placed and
instructed at their appropriate
instructional levels.
• Students need to be deeply engaged
and have a voice in their learning.
• Students are always trying to guess
what it is the teacher wants.
©RISC 2010
Chugach School District Standardized Test
Scores Comparison
*All scores are National Percentile
CAT Testing Reading
1994/1995 28.4%
1995/1996 43.5%
1996/1997 56.0%
1997/1998 62.5%
1998/1999 71.1%
Language Math
Spelling
26.5%
35.6%
22.0%
44.2%
54.3%
32.0%
50.0%
58.0%
35.0%
59.6%
65.8%
46.0%
71.9%
78.1%
65.0%
©RISC 2010
Chugach’s Shared Vision
What are the examples of
a competency-based
system in this video?
(Standards, Variety of Instruction,
Meaningful Assessments and Reporting)
©RISC 2010
RISC 2010
“As far as I can tell, the Re-Inventing Schools
Model, as implemented by Chugach and other
districts in Alaska involved with RISC is the most
comprehensive and well articulated approach to
competency-based reform in the entire country”
Dr. Robert Marzano
What we have learned along the way
“It has to be both systemic and
systematic in approach:
to scale, yield positive results and be
sustainable”
Richard DeLorenzo
Here are the 4 components that you will
need to deploy the RISC framework
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Shared Leadership
Authentic Shared Vision
Competency-Based System
Benchmarked Continuous
Improvement
©RISC 2010
RISC 2010
BSSD SBA Trend Data
% of BSSD Students Prof/Advanced
0.6
0.5
0.4
Reading
0.3
Writing
Math
0.2
0.1
0
Spring Spring Spring Spring Spring Spring Spring
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Reading
Year of Testing
HSGQE PASS RATE FOR BSSD
SENIORS
90%
80%
% of Seniors
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
FY '02
FY '03
FY '04
FY '05
School Year
FY '06
FY '07
RISC Philosophy
20th Century Classroom
Movement based on time
Sitting in rows
Textbook-driven
Hidden curriculum
Teacher-controlled class
10% student engagement
3 Rs (read, write, arithmetic)
Teacher is the evaluator
1 years growth
RISC Class
RISC Philosophy
20th Century Classroom
Movement based on time
Sitting in rows
Textbook-driven
Hidden curriculum
Teacher-controlled class
10% student engagement
3 Rs
Teacher is the evaluator
1 years growth
RISC Class
Performance movement
Situational grouping
Shared vision-driven
Transparent curriculum
Students are the navigators
100% student engagement
Global Economy
Self, peer, and teachers
Accelerated growth
up to 3 years in 1 year
The 4 components of the RISC
philosophy at a district, school and
class level?
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Authentic Shared Vision
Shared Leadership
Competency-Based System
Benchmarked Continuous
Improvement
©RISC 2010
RISC 2010
From a principal’s perspective
why is this change necessary?
©RISC 2010
RISC leading questions
• What is the current status of our
schools after NCLB?
• What should the next generation of
schools look like?
• If needed, how do we change our
classrooms, schools and districts?
• What role does RISC play?
RISC 2010
Change is never easy,
especially in a system that
has been in place for over
150 years and we will
defend it even if we know it
doesn’t work because it is
all we know.
Richard DeLorenzo
©RISC 2010
DeLorenzo’s Top Eight Excuses
to Guarantee No Change
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We tried that before.
Our district is different.
We don’t have the resources.
Our organization is too small, or too big.
Micro-management is our friend.
If only you really understood our
situation.
• It’s impossible with our bus schedule!
• If only we didn’t have any students, I
think we could change a few things!
©RISC 2010
How about a child’s
perspective?
©RISC 2010
RISC 2010
Results
The odds of a student in a RISC School
scoring proficient or above on state tests
are 2.3 times greater for reading, 2.5
times greater for writing, and 2.4 times
greater for mathematics than the odds of
a student scoring proficient or above on
state tests at a Non-RISC School.
RISC 2010
Lesson Learned with RISC
from 1999-2011
“Leadership at the top is the key”
DeLorenzo 2010
RISC 2010
1. Heroic leaders at all levels are the key to
summiting
2. Collaboration needs to be strategic and
measured
3. All stakeholders need to be raised
simultaneously especially administrators,
teachers and students
4. 1st implementation is the most difficult part
5. Your ability to problem solve will determine
your success
6. >80 % commitment from all staff is critical
Committed vs. Non committed
C
NC
What can you do?
• Visit reinventingschools.org (RISC)
• Read “Delivering on the Promise”
• Visit a local district that is attempting
to move in this direction
highlandtech.org/sbsadams50.org
• Attend our trainings in Wa. Ca. Co.
Me. Ore. and UK
• Follow RichDeLorenzo on twitter
©RISC 2010
Building Knowledge
Break-out sessions:
1)Re-engineering the District Colorado A
2)Introduction to Competency-Based
Pathways Colorado B
3)Comparing Different Models of
Competency-Based Learning Colorado C
4)What Makes Good State Policy Colorado D
March 3: 11:15 – 12:30
What is the promise for us?
Every system will…
• commit to 2nd order change by
changing their actions
• move from a time-based teachercentered system to studentcentered competency-based one
• unleash the potential of all children
©RISC 2010