by Heather Cate | Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of the tenets of mastery/competency-based learning is the idea that students’ progress is based on what they show that they know and can do. In the case of high schools, for example, you graduate when your work shows that you have mastered a set of content...
by Heather Cate | Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago, I was at the SXSW EDU conference in Austin, Texas. One evening, friends invited me to join them at a brewery on the east side of town. It was unseasonably cold all week, but they had the heat lamps out so when I arrived everyone was sitting...
by Heather Cate | Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of the most exciting, and scary, things we’re working on at the Workshop School in the School District of Philadelphia this summer is a pivot to new graduation requirements based on theĀ NGLC MyWays framework. We’ve always believed that the broader set...