Time. It's so valuable. Often we feel we don't have enough of it. How can schools make the most of their learners' time? This podcast focuses on competency-based learning, an idea whose time has come.

In a competency-based system, learners move from one level to the next based on their own choices and timing, not based on the school calendar. Over 360 studies show that competency-based learning significantly helps children.

To understand the idea, Heather takes you on a journey through five time periods in education:

• 1776 - Education in colonial America
• 1837 - Horace Mann and the Prussian system
• 1913 - Henry Ford and Industrial America
• 1984 - Benjamin Bloom's research on mastery learning
• 2020 - What the future can be

Looking to the past, you'll get an overview of why schools operate as they do today and hopefully some new ideas for how to make them even better for tomorrow.