Quests, Not Grades: Inside the School With No Report Cards | Tanner Bowman

Traditional education isn’t broken. It’s just punishing the wrong things. On the road to Sinners and Saints Coffee, Coby and Tanner Bowman of Optio talk about tearing down classroom rules, replacing letter grades with experience points, and why the most powerful thing you can give a student is autonomy. Tanner shares what it took to walk away from ten years as a high school computer science teacher, how making attendance completely optional actually made kids want to show up, and why true learning happens when you stop penalizing failure. He opens up a...