Let the Games Begin: CBExchange 2022 Has Begun

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Let the games begin! Festivities have kicked off here in Amelia Island, Florida at CBExchange 2022. Competency-Based Education Network President Charla Long and Executive Vice President Amber Garrison Duncan took the stage at 9am this morning to lead us through this year’s CBExchange kick-off.

Participants entered the room through a football tunnel fit for Super Bowl champions, greeted by cheerleaders celebrating their game-changing work. Participants got to dance, strut, and walk tall onto an astroturf football field, complete with crisp white yard lines and the C-BEN logo front and center, capped by field goals.

The stage — or field — is set to learn and grow as a competency-based community. As the conference continues, participants can expect to attend sessions that unpack the CBE movement, share best practices, and provide support to CBE leaders from across the country and around the globe. Whether participants are veteran CBE players or rookies to the movement, conference organizers have made sure there is something for everyone.

Stay tuned to this page and follow along as the conference continues. C-BEN is sure to leave it all on the field.

About the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN)

The Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) is revolutionizing how we design, experience, and measure learning throughout a lifetime. We believe learning should be measured by what you can do — the knowledge, skills, and behaviors that lay the foundation for your success — and for more than 10 years we have been guiding our expansive network of education leaders, employers, policymakers, and changemakers towards quality competency-based models and practices. C-BEN is a U.S.-based non-profit organization. For more information, visit C-BEN.org

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