NHLI | New Hampshire Learning Initiative
All Students Deserve a Quality Education
Jon Vander Els
/ May 23, 2018
School ReTool
Leadership in a competency-based system is critical. Recognizing this, the Learning Initiative has been seeking ways to support school leaders in deepening the mindsets, knowledge, and skills and dispositions needed to effectively develop a competency-based and personalized model designed to meet the needs of all learners. The Learning Initiative, in partnership with the Stanford […]
Continue Reading/ May 9, 2018
How One New Hampshire District is Leveraging Success Skills in a Competency-Based System
By Jonathan G. Vander Els, Director of Innovative Projects for the New Hampshire Learning Initiative and Sarah Kiley, Epping School District Teacher and Work Study Practices Coordinator New Hampshire Overview: Over the past three years, a number of New Hampshire schools have been focusing on how the integration of success skills (or Work Study […]
Continue Reading/ March 9, 2018
Highlighting Deeper Learning Competencies in New Hampshire
It is hard to argue the importance that being a strong collaborator, an articulate communicator, a self-directed learner, and a creative problem solver has on a person’s success in today’s world. In fact, a recent analysis by Valerie Strauss from the Washington Post on an article written by Cathy Davidson highlighting how Google culled data […]
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