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Going Gradeless

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, Learning Lab

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Grace Collins
CEO
Snowbright Studio
@SBrightStudio
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Grace is the Founder/CEO of Snowbright Studio, an LGBTBE certified game studio located in Cleveland, Ohio. They previously led games and education policy at the US Department of Education and later coordinated federal game policy across the executive branch. Prior to serving at the Department, Graceimanaged and developed educational game projects at the Smithsonian Institution. Grace has taught computer science and game design at multiple levels and was profiled by the Associated Press for founding the first esports team in the nation at an all-girls’ high school.

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Have you ever wondered what a gradeless school is like? Grace Collins spent the past year as a founding faculty member of the Mastery School of Hawken, a completely gradeless mastery-based school that serves as an exemplar for the Mastery Transcript Consortium. Let's talk about what works well in a gradeless school, what to watch out for, and how educators and administrators can go gradeless at the assignment/class/school level to better empower different types of learners.

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