What if the annual history curriculum was a self-paced, passion-based, exploration of “Prehistory to Predictions”? What if the annual science curriculum was a self-paced, passion-based exploration of “Space, Land, and Sea”? What if students could progress in their learning at their own pace in each and every subject? Why is it that policies regarding homework tend to focus on duration and grade level instead of the quality of what is being assigned? What if we also measured what the student was soon ready to do? How do concepts such as “final exams” hinder our hopes that children will become lifelong learners? What if some courses in a school were mastery-based and others linked to traditional curriculum? What is already available online that could be useful to your students? What is natural and fair about students choosing when they want to be assessed? Is the right model for learning group work at school and independent work at home? What if course topics were chosen by the students themselves?

What tenets from Khan Academy fit into our beliefs about teaching and learning?

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