The Department of Education’s Rethinking Educational Models (REM) grant focuses in large part on competency-based instruction, as well as best practices for online learning. Individual educators and school teams have opportunities to grow professionally in these areas with free/sponsored programming. Visit the REM webpage to learn more.

• Quality Matters© – Grant funds pursuit of a Quality Matters© Teaching Online Certificate, which helps teachers develop mastery in an online environment.
• Professional learning on competency-based instruction – Teachers can earn nine FREE graduate credits, with coursework aimed at increasing capacity in competency-based, knowledge-rich, and whole child instructional approaches. Coursework created by South Dakota educators and administrators.
• REM Colloquium – Opportunity for 15 school leadership teams to join a cohort starting this summer. The colloquium will explore and pilot competency-based education, knowledge-rich curriculum, and whole child approaches to instruction to support a continuum of learning.