This post provides a deeper look into the ideas of learner agency, one of JumpRope’s Core Values. Student goal setting is one of the most powerful tools I have built into my practice. It is also one of the elements of teaching that seems to be the most elusive. As a former middle school classroom teacher and current lecturer at the university level, I have experienced and witnessed that building a practice of student goal setting demands that I take time to plan and launch th

The start of 2021 brought a significant milestone for our company: we've completed the rewrite of our applications and are finally 100% free of Adobe Flash! As many of our long-time customers are aware, our original application was written in 2008 (long before iPads, Chromebooks, and the like were available) and took advantage of the common web plugin to offer advanced functionality back before HTML was a first-class way to create complex applications. As web technologies ev