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 "Transforming education toward personalized competency-based learning in support of whole-child development is essential and complex work. This practical guide to reinventing schools offers a valuable map of the kinds of variables schools can consider, along with much-needed guidance on the complex process of guiding change in specific places and systems." ----Katherine Prince, vice president of strategic foresight, KnowledgeWorks "There's no one way to begin shifting the paradigm from time-based industrial models of schooling to competency-based systems. This book provides multiple pathways to progress in shifting our systems that are currently designed to rank and sort children toward contemporary, personalized approaches and competency-based systems of learning for building student success. It offers holistic guidance on moving the needle, and the authors recognize this requires more than piecemeal change. It offers a variety of options to foment important conversations to drive toward system transformation." ----Susan Patrick, president & CEO, Aurora Institute " Vision and Action is a comprehensive, thoughtful explication of personalized learning. Reigeluth and Karnopp succeed in knitting together specific illustrations of practice and organizational design within a coherent and accessible conceptual framework. As a result, readers will enjoy both the breadth and depth of this interesting examination of a breakthrough approach to learning." --Nick Donohue, president & CEO, The Nellie Mae Education Foundation "Personalized and competency-based learning is a team sport--and Vision and Action is the playbook for the whole team. It's a great how-to book for a system. It's a good read by yourself, but it's even better if school and system leaders study it together. I love the attention paid to new roles that are created and the new cultural behaviors that are required by personalized and competency-based learning." --Tom Vander Ark, CEO, Getting Smart "This book comes at just the right time to address a major need in the field. It cuts through the hype and rhetoric around 'personalized learning' to offer specific and comprehensive guidance on how to transform school systems. The structure of the book also makes it easy to digest, review, and refer back to, while traveling the journey toward personalized, competency-based education." ----Thomas Arnett, senior education research fellow, Clayton Christensen Institute 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