{"id":9711,"date":"2015-09-14T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=9711"},"modified":"2015-09-11T13:25:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T20:25:18","slug":"what-happens-when-students-work-at-their-own-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/what-happens-when-students-work-at-their-own-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When Students Work at Their Own Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools wanting to adopt competency-based learning may have a challenging time doing so due to inconsistent policies nationwide and very few models to follow. Jason Tomassini,\u00a0communications director at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalpromise.org\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Promise<\/a>, follows a rural school district in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalpromise.org\/districts\/piedmont-city-school-district\" target=\"_blank\">Piedmont<\/a>, Alabama to learn about their victories and lessons learned from their first year of implementing self-paced learning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #acacac; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Piedmont\u2019s 1,200 students, 68 percent of whom are from low-income households, aren\u2019t exposed to many opportunities or career paths outside of the classroom. Success is more than just developing a strategy for an initiative. It\u2019s changing expectations so that students who may have never considered college a possibility can not only attend but thrive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #acacac; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;\">Piedmont is emerging as a national model for the future of rural education because it relentlessly works to provide its students with an education and a skillset that rivals a wealthier district. Every student receives a laptop for school and home. Through local partnerships, all families have access to free and low-cost Internet. Students take computer programming, robotics, and foreign language courses that, until recently, weren\u2019t offered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>By Jason Tomassini<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interested in finding out more? <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalpromise.org\/blog\/entry\/what-happens-when-students-work-at-their-own-pace\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article<\/a> at Digital Promise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools wanting to adopt competency-based learning may have a challenging time doing so due to inconsistent policies nationwide and very few models to follow. \u00a0Jason Tomassini,\u00a0communications director at Digital Promise, follows a rural school district in Piedmont, Alabama to learn about their victories and lessons learned from their first year of implementing self-paced learning.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":9717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[364],"tags":[73,313],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9711"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}