Why Isn’t 100% Good Enough?

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Why Isn’t 100% Good Enough?

graded homework, representing how fluency (not just test scores) determine skill mastery

100/100, A+ on the latest unit test! Time to celebrate, right? Three months later at a disappointing parent conference meeting, the teacher expresses concern that your child is falling behind. HOW COULD THAT BE!? Your friend’s son also received a 100% on his unit test but your friend didn’t hear the same message from the teacher. What’s different about your...[ read more ]

Make More Mistakes!

Young boy dressed in school uniform holds books and looks stressed out, worried about making mistakes in class.

WHAT?!?! You read that right! We want our learners to make more mistakes. There is a story about a professor who split his class into two large groups and both were instructed to work together to make ceramic pots. One group was assigned to focus on quantity while the other was told to focus on quality. In the end, who...[ read more ]