Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools Through Personalized Competency-Based Education (A comprehensive guide for implementing personalized competency-based education)

Transform teaching and learning with personalized competency-based education (PCBE). With the support of this comprehensive guide, you will first discover how to define your vision of PCBE and then learn how to realize this vision by fully implementing the system across your school or district. Strategies, tools, and case studies are shared throughout to help you overcome the challenges of change and succeed with PCBE.

Contents:
Preface
Part I: A Vision of Personalized Competency-Based Education
Chapter 1: Competency-Based Education
Chapter 2: Learner-Centered Instruction
Chapter 3: Restructured Curriculum
Chapter 4: New Roles
Chapter 5: A Nurturing Culture
Chapter 6: New Organizational Structure
Chapter 7: The Principles in Action
Part II: The Change Process
Chapter 8: Overview of the Change Process
Chapter 9: Change Process for a District
Chapter 10: Change Process for an Independent School
Epilogue
Appendix A: District Readiness Criteria
Appendix B: Helpful Resources

Charles M. Reigeluth, PhD, is professor emeritus at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He is a distinguished educational researcher and consultant who focuses on paradigm change in education, including the design of high-quality personalized competency-based instruction, the design of technology systems to support such instruction, and the process for transforming school systems to the learner-centered paradigm of education. He taught high school science for three years, was a professor in the Instructional Systems Technology Department at Indiana University for 25 years, and was chairman of the department for three years. He facilitated a paradigm change effort in the Decatur Township Schools in Indianapolis for 11 years to advance knowledge about how to help school systems to transform. He is internationally known for his work on instructional methods and theories.

Dr. Reigeluth has been a longtime member of AERA, AECT, ASCD, PDK, and more recently ASCD and iNACOL. He received the Honored Alumnus award from Brigham Young University's School of Education and the Distinguished Service award from AECT, where he founded the Division for Systemic Thinking and Change. He has published 12 books and almost 200 journal articles and book chapters on those subjects, and six of his books received the Outstanding Book of the Year award from AECT. He also received seven awards for outstanding journal article or book chapter from AERA, AECT, and NSPI. His most recent books are Reinventing Schools: It's Time to Break the Mold (2013) and Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV: The Learner-Centered Paradigm of Education (2017). He has given keynote addresses to a variety of organizations around the world, including the National School Boards Association and the International Conference on Media in Education in Japan.

Dr. Reigeluth received a BA in economics from Harvard University and a PhD in instructional psychology from Brigham Young University.