Nine years ago, Cory Steiner became Superintendent of the Northern Cass School District, a school system K-12 of 700 students, 25 minutes northwest of Fargo, North Dakota, and brought with him a question: How can we be a world class education system. Rallying and engaging the educators, families, and students, they have been forging a new district design. Fully competency-based, attending to the voice and experience of their learners, engaging their families, and continuously asking how can we do better. Now one of my favorite stories of innovation and what is possible when an entire system asks … what can we do! Here, Cory and his colleagues, Tom Klapp and Beth Head, share the story of their evolution and a vision for continually reinventing, building, and designing themselves to do what’s best for their youth. What a remarkable story.
Nine years ago, Cory Steiner became Superintendent of the Northern Cass School District, a school system K-12 of 700 students, 25 minutes northwest of Fargo, North Dakota, and brought with him a question: How can we be a world class education system. Rallying and engaging the educators, families, and students, they have been forging a new district design. Fully competency-based, attending to the voice and experience of their learners, engaging their families, and continuously asking how can we do better. Now one of my favorite stories of innovation and what is possible when an entire system asks … what can we do! Here, Cory and his colleagues, Tom Klapp and Beth Head, share the story of their evolution and a vision for continually reinventing, building, and designing themselves to do what’s best for their youth. What a remarkable story.