“You don’t have to be the police,” says Wijnands. “We now have another way to deal with managing students. They do everything. They even assign themselves homework!” Each team knows where they are in the material, the dates by which they have to accomplish interim steps, and if they’ll need to do work outside of class to learn all the material in time. “They are self-organizing; they develop smarter and faster ways to study. One team started with the test and worked backward. A bunch of eleven-year-olds. ‘Not good,’ I told them. Their faces fell.” Wijnands grins his contagious smile. “Then I
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