Reinventing Education Series: Mastery-Based Learning
Reinventing Education: A Series for Educators 🌱
Are you an educator with a passion for delivering inspiring learning journeys for your students? Are you frustrated by the current paradigm of education, and are seeking an alternative?
This series is for you.
Join an inspiring community of educators and innovators, whose mission is to reinvent how we deliver education globally.
Mastery-Based Learning
We believe that education should be personalized, and adaptable to meet the needs of each specific learner. Mastery-Based learning is a learning model which facilitates progression through curricula based on mastery, not age.
Join us for the first interactive masterclass in our Reinventing Education Series: Mastery-Based Learning: A New Paradigm in Education.
During the session, we will be exploring how you can draw inspiration from Mastery-Based Learning models, and implement them in your classroom.
We will cover:
🌱 How does Mastery-Based Education represent a new paradigm in education?
💡 How you can use standards to complement a Mastery-Based Learning approach
🌻 Mastery-Based Education in Action
Case Study 1: School of Humanity
Case Study 2: WeLearn
Case Study 3: Boundless Life
💭 Q&A
The session will be interactive, with an opportunity for Q&A with inspiring panelists from all over the world.
Meet our Panelists 🎙️
Raya Bidshahri
Raya is a serial entrepreneur and award-winning educator. She is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of School of Humanity, a breakthrough online high school reinventing education. She has been featured by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential and inspiring women globally. Her mission is to reinvent global education systems in order to better serve humanity.
Philip Muscott
The director of curriculum at WeLearn Academy in Thailand, Philip G Muscott hails from the United Kingdom and has 20 years of experience in international education. His passion and expertise are focused on curriculum design, professional development, and academic research. Philip utilises the Understanding by Design framework for curriculum planning, infused with the 16 Habits of Mind to create interdisciplinary Project-based Learning units with a focus on 'Future Skills'. Philip truly believes that the time is ripe to 're-imagine' education and take account of the radical changes currently occurring in society in the fields of access to information, artificial intelligence, and robotics so that we are adequately equipping our learners to be agents of change.
Suzanne Perkowsky
Suzanne was the co-founder of New Nordic Schools, a Finnish education development company that created the Nordic Baccalaureate based on the Finnish education system. She has been in the education field for over 30 years as a teacher, leader and trainer, setting up and working in schools in Finland, Singapore, China, Saudi Arabia, the UK and the US. She has been involved in the set-up of over 15 new schools or campuses. Suzanne has qualifications from Finland, UK and the US which have been key in understanding global education, its accolades and its shortcomings to best inform current best practices. She believes there's always something more to learn no matter how experienced or educated you are. Leading the academics in Boundless Life is the perfect opportunity to share her passion for adventure, education and learning with people who have the same passion.
Kobus du Toit
Kobus has a decade of experience in innovative roles across traditional, online, and hybrid schools. He has designed youth leadership and innovation programs, taught music and robotics, coached teenagers to find their purpose, and managed a breakthrough hybrid co-learning space for teenagers. Currently, Kobus works as the Partnerships Manager at the School of Humanity, in Cape Town, South Africa. He is dedicated to transforming formal learning environments into community-based ecosystems of learning by forming strategic partnerships to sustain disruptive innovation in education.
For Educators All Over the World 🌍 This (free) event is open to all educators, anywhere in the world!
About School of Humanity 💜
School of Humanity is a breakthrough online high school reinventing education. Instead of exams, we learn through real-world projects. Instead of a standardized curriculum, we learn through personalized learning journeys. Instead of memorization, we focus on developing our skills, network, and portfolios.
We offer High School and Summer School programs with an online or hybrid modality for learners across the world. Our vision is to reinvent our global education system to better serve humanity by equipping learners with key skills, portfolios and networks to thrive in an exponentially changing world.
