How to Make Personalized Competency-Based Education a Reality
“Leading the Evolution provides a comprehensive blueprint for facilitating meaningful change within our schools. Research and strategies detailing how to create a school culture that brings administrators, teachers, and students together for the common cause of authentic learning are clearly articulated and easy for educational leaders at all levels to follow. This book is truly a must-have for any educator interested in understanding his or her part in creating the schools our students deserve.” —TRAVIS ANDERSON Superintendent, Gallatin Gateway School District #35, Gallatin Gateway, Montana “A timely resource that could be a game changer for the way we currently ‘do’ education, Leading the Evolution supports and empowers all stakeholders to embrace their transformational role in the educational process. The evolutionary triad, which specifically calls out the necessity of social justice being an integral part of teaching and learning, reminds us what is at stake as we prepare for nextgeneration schools.” —NANCY DOME Founder and CEO, Epoch Education, El Verano, California
LEADING THE EVOLUTION
LEADING THE EVOLUTION
LEADING THE
EVOLUTION How to Make Personalized Competency-Based Education a Reality
Visionary school leaders must be able to shift existing educational pedagogies and structures in order to meet every student’s individual learning needs. Leading the Evolution: How to Make Personalized Competency-Based Education a Reality explains how to do just that using personalized competency-based education (PCBE), which marries the ideas of personalized learning and the individualization of academic content. To effectively implement PCBE, author Mike Ruyle and contributors Tamera Weir O’Neill, Jeanie M. Iberlin, Michael D. Evans, and Rebecca Midles offer the evolutionary triad, a framework consisting of three main points: (1) the transformational instructional leader, (2) the optimistic teacher, and (3) the engaged student. K–12 school leaders and teacher leaders will: • Understand why evolving education beyond the traditional model is imperative • Realize the importance of PCBE • Recognize how shifting to PCBE is an act of social justice • Explore the role of High Reliability Schools™ in sustaining PCBE
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MIKE RUYLE
• Consider in detail all three points of the evolutionary triad
MIKE RUYLE
with Tamera Weir O’Neill Jeanie M. Iberlin Michael D. Evans Rebecca Midles