Build a student-centered approach to learning

Empower your students daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences.

Rely on the knowledge and experience of Dr. Robert J. Marzano and his team of world-renowned experts to help you transition from a traditional school to a high reliability organization that leads its students to mastery.

Our Personalized Competency-Based Education PD helps you explore the benefits of a student-centered approach to teaching and learning that allows students to move through levels of content at their appropriate pace.

The Basics: Building Your Skills

One-Day Services

Your team is ready to gain understanding, inspiration, and strategies to improve teaching and learning in your school or district.

In a customizable presentation, an associate will guide you forward on your path to implementing competency-based education.
Learn how to select terms for direct instruction, use a research-based process to teach those terms, and assess and track students’ progress with new terms.
See how leaders and educators can implement an effective competency-based education system.
Understand the specific aspects of competency-based education and review strategic initiatives schools should consider during implementation.

Go Further: Deepening Your Skills

Two‑to‑Four‑day Services

You need more intensive sessions to deepen your understanding and further your progress.

Learn how to address cognitive and metacognitive skills across levels and subject areas. Use your local standards to practice creating or adapting proficiency scales, and explore the importance of proficiency scales.
Establish a system for setting and monitoring classroom goals through a code of cooperation.
Understand how to plan and implement personalized instruction using proficiency scales.
Understand the variety of assessments available to teachers in a personalized competency-based system and learn an effective approach for recording scores.
Explore the benefits of a well-organized personalized competency-based education system.
Explore various strategies for working within the current system, including small-group instruction, focused instructional time and advisory periods, and team teaching.
Consider and discuss options for transitioning within and across schools.
Receive detailed explanations of each component of the framework and guidance for putting it into practice in your classroom.
Measure your school’s high reliability status and discover a process to create and address lagging indicators based on collected data.

Sustaining Your Skills

Multi-Day Service

You want to embed key routines and practices designed to significantly improve your professional well-being and positively impact your colleagues and students.

A Marzano Resources associate will work side by side with you to ensure your staff has the knowledge and skills to move toward personalized learning and competency-based education.
Unlock unlimited access to professional learning videos and book chapters that delve into the what, why, and how of personalized learning and competency-based education.

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