Operation: Shrike

Current Problems

• "Mastery" is not mastery
• Standards aren't standard
• No external alignment
• Weighting, granularity, and sequence of standards
• Uphill battle for rolling and blended

Mastery

1. Consistent (not peak) performance

2. Application in context

Mastery

"Diagram Web Requests"

1)

2)

"Diagram web requests"

Standards

• Externally-aligned (TTP)
• (Generally) Technology agnostic
• Shared, common assessments
• Spiraled

Standards

Categories

• Foundational Skills
• Technical Skills
• Applied Technical Skills
• Experience & Exposure
• Professional Skills & Interests

Standards

Applied Technical Skills

Work efficiently using the terminal

Level I: Manage & navigate a file system

Level II: Demonstrate common UNIX commands

Level III: Write a shell script that accomplishes a described task

Learning Process

• Learn
• Practice
• Drill
• Apply

Learning Process

• Learn - Articles, Bue, External Resources, Learn
• Practice - Exercises, Inline CFUs, Optional Perf. data
• Drill - Assessments, Checkpoints, Required for mastery
• Apply - Projects, Required for mastery, also spiraled

Learning Process

Common Questions

• What about autonomy?
  • Fixed in the right places, flexible in the right places
• What about slow/fast students?
  • Tons of flexibility
• What about my market?
  • Should be agnostic enough
• Will this be more work?
  • The same amount of work, but more of the right work​​​
• What about modularity?
  • Rolling comes from personalization, not modularity

Results

• Shared, externally-aligned standards and assessments
• Confidence in student performance
• Sets us up for rolling and data-driven instruction

Let's build a great school!