"Competency-based learning promises exponential growth, success, and rewards for schools seeking to better serve their students. However, without a solid framework to guide schools through change from traditional models of practice, achieving a competency-based learning system may seem like a pipe dream-an inspiring, but ultimately unattainable, ideal. But it can be realized! In Pioneers of Personalized Education: Westminster Public Schools and the Pursuit of Competency-Based Learning, authors Jeni Gotto, Oliver Grenham, Brian J. Kosena, Robert J. Marzano, and Pamela Swanson share the success of Westminster Public Schools through the framework they developed when pursuing a competency-based learning system. This framework, the WPS Learning Model, offers five core values and practices teachers and administrators can adopt to move their schools toward new models of thinking, teaching, and connecting with students. With the help of supportive tools and other insightful lessons learned along WPS' transformative journey toward competency-based learning, readers who adopt the WPS Learning Model will take the initial steps in charting their own schools' course towards a new model of engaged impactful learning"-- Provided by publisher.