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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

In schools that belong to the MTC, like Messer’s school, students demonstrate learning through artifacts evidence of their skills and understanding that are collected across content areas. I’ll reassess your research artifact. So students see that progression of skills in lots of different content connections.

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Making to Learn in Physics

A Principal's Reflections

This all changed dramatically when students were afforded a hands-on, authentic learning experience in the Makerspace that allowed them to create artifacts of learning to demonstrate conceptual mastery. The Makerspace in the library is an oasis for student self-directed learning.

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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School

Teaching Anthropology

Picture 1: Outreach Display case showcasing artifacts recovered from the SWP field school at the University of Toronto Mississauga Library (Photo Credit: Mitchell Ma) As Teaching Assistants (TAs) in the SWP field school during the summer of 2023, we supported Dr. Brand and Dr.

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OPINION: As the coronavirus drives students apart, one college devises a course to keep them together

The Hechinger Report

The lesson featured two art historians, a microbiologist, a writing specialist, the library director and me, a historian in sports studies. Each week, students submit a found “artifact” — an image, an object, a news story, a meme — that encompasses both their learning in the course and their personal experience of the coronavirus.

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Call for Applications: 2025-2026 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

Currently numbering over 83,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal papers and institutional archives, it comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media, rare books, archival materials, art, and artifacts.

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Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. In addition to this partnership, assessors were recruited from national library leaders participating in the Lilead Fellows program.

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How Our Micro-credential Audit Supports Equitable and Accessible Professional Development

Digital Promise

As the pandemic continued, engagement with micro-credentials exponentially increased, as did the need to ensure that our micro-credential library reflected the goals and needs of the field. Are there options for types of artifacts requested? We believe that high quality must also mean accessible and equitable.