Last month we shared a look back and a look ahead for JumpRope. Jesse and Justin spent some time talking with me about what they see as deeply relevant in JumpRope’s past and how they envision that past shaping our future. They detailed some things they hold firmly to, like a commitment to making learning more meaningful for students, new product development...

As the 2018-19 school year comes to an end, I'd like to take some time to share our product plans and roadmap over the summer and into next school year.  I’m also excited to announce that we’ll be releasing brand new district-wide reporting tools to our customers next week! Read on to find out more.

I began writing the software that you know as JumpRope on my...

I believe firmly that we have a great deal to learn from careful consideration of history. The short history of the proficiency movement is no exception. In writing this fall series, I very quickly realized that some of the most useful thinking would come from those with lived experience. This final post is drawn completely from the dedicated conversations I...

In my last post, I shared that, the New England Secondary School Consortium tells us “College admissions staff members consider school profiles essential to the admissions process because these provide the necessary context to interpret and understand the academic accomplishments of individual students. A carefully constructed transcript is made much more po...

Districts and schools that choose to use a proficiency-based transcript for their college-bound students have nothing to fear. I encourage school board members, administrators, teachers, students, and parents to read the literature on proficiency-based transcripts as a way to help assuage concerns. I encourage the more tenacious readers (or those of you with...

Editor's note: This is part three in a multi-part series.  Please see part one here and part two here.  Courtney is a teacher at Narragansett Elementary School in Gorham, Maine.

Like many districts that have adopted national standards, the performance indicators (PIs) we use in the Gorham School district require students to deepen their understandin...

(part 2 in a multi-part series)

Way back in December I wrote Looking at the Ingredients, Not at the Label, a post asking all of us to suspend our judgement on the merits (or absence of merits) of a proficiency-based system in favor of an examination of common practices and goals that have emerged from this change we are navigating. I relied heavily on a 2015...