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Failing Grades: How to Motivate Students to Learn Without Keeping Score

Students need to learn by doing — through problem-solving, project-based learning and being creative.  Parents, myself included, need to let go of a system we grew up with and recognize how we experienced school will not prepare students for now, or much less 2040, when two thirds of the jobs that will exist then do…

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Competency-Based Learning During a Pandemic

Martin Moran, Director of Upper School at Bennett Day School, explains how our competency-based system allowed for a seamless transition to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.  This article was originally published on Martin Moran’s LinkedIn on March 31, 2020.

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