SLATE

Slate is an open-source platform built and controlled by schools to define and track the skills that matter most to their students. Slate's open-source approach ensures schools retain complete control over their software and data while sharing the systems and tools that support their innovative models... Development of Slate began in 2008 as a partnership between Jarvus Innovations and the Science Leadership Academy, a Philadelphia public school nationally recognized for technology supported, inquiry-based pedagogy. From the very beginning, Jarvus and SLA intended to share everything they built with other schools, so they released it under the MIT open-source license. Over the years, more project and competency-based schools joined and built a range of tools that integrate external systems and enable project-based learning and skill evaluation. Today, as the Slate community continues to grow, we work together to build and share the tools we all need to more authentically define and..