Executive Summary The most effective catalyst for school transformation is a strategic disruption. Our team spent the last four years embedded in a unique, innovative, roller-coaster of an experience called the Math Pipeline Readiness Project (M-PReP). We knew the project would be complicated given the lofty goal to create systemic
Executive Summary “My perception of being college-ready is way different from what I imagined in high school. Seeing the difference of how math is taught at a college level, there is no teacher to tell you to stay awake in class or what you are missing or need to turn
Who is responsible for helping students navigate the road to college? When students get to high school, most assume the responsibilities of college advising falls
In a previous blog post, I’d started the conversation about College Bridge’s movement toward Learning-Based Grading initiatives. In it, I discussed the use of the
To start, you’d have to take a very long perspective on the history of grading in the United States. Doing that, I’d much rather refer
As an organization, we strongly believe in the notion that grades should reflect learning. It’s a matter of best practice and equity. If schools are
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and “Great Pivot” to online/remote learning, the question of equity in grading was already a historic debate for instructors, administrators,
Over the summer, Governor Newsome signed into law AB-104 Pupil instruction: retention, grade changes, and exemptions*. This law was intended to be a continuation of