Understanding by Design Making Mastery Work Khan Academy on Upending Learning This article from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation
explains what mastery learning is, how it’s working in 11 test
schools, and how you can incorporate it into your school
design.
How can schools develop self-directed learners? Monica
Martinez surveyed teachers and principals to get their
recommendations on how to enable students to take
responsibility for their own learning.
Can the Khan Academy use what they know about how
we learn to upend and democratize SAT prep? Find out
in this article in Wired magazine.
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe offer insights on how to
design your school, from the curriculum to the culture,
so students deeply understand what they learn.
Self-Directed Learning What does new
knowledge about
learning and brain
science tell us about how
adolescents develop into
capable, independent,
confident adults? What
are the implications
for schooling?
“Learn math the way you’d learn anything, like riding a bicycle. Stay on that bicycle. Fall off that bicycle. Do it as long as necessary, until you have mastery. The traditional model penalizes you for experimentation and failure, but it does not expect mastery. We encourage you to experiment. We encourage you to fail. But we do expect mastery.” SALMAN KHAN Founder, Khan Academy
XQ Knowledge Module No. 3 The Science of Adolescent Learning
13 It’s going to take original, generative thinking to transform how we provide
