Meet Dr. Crumley. Over twenty years ago, he was at the cutting edge of a transformational change effort in Chugach, Alaska. Now in his final year as Superintendent of the Chugach School District, he shares his change leadership story that is sure to challenge and inspire you. Click on the symbol to start listening, or find the 21-minute podcast here: Story of Chugach.
To learn more about the Chugach School District’s transition to competency-based or “performance-based” learning, check out these additional resources from our friends at CompetencyWorks and EdSurge:
- CompetencyWorks: Chugach School District: A Personalized, Performance-based System (2016)
- EdSurge: How Alaska’s Chugach School District Changed Education Through Performance-based Learning (2014)
- Solution Tree (book): Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution (2008)
“Creativity follows mastery.” These are the words of Benjamin Bloom, who believed that learners are capable of incredible things if they have access to powerful learning environments. This is why we’ve chosen the name “Bloom” for our knowledge-sharing initiative. Bloom is all about our stake in helping to build the capacity of practitioners and leaders who work with our most marginalized youth to reimagine, recreate, redesign our models for learning–within schools and beyond. For us, this is fundamentally a matter of social justice. Reach out if you’d like to submit a guest post, or sign up for our monthly newsletter: Bloom@reDesignu.org.
