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Joe Ricketts
Self-Made Entrepreneur, Visionary Philanthropist When John Joseph Ricketts started First Omaha Securities in 1975, he couldn’t imagine that decades years later, the company - now known as TD Ameritrade - would... Read More
Gratitude from Students at Quest Forward Academy Santa Rosa
The coronavirus time continues to be deeply challenging, bringing job loss and economic hardship, mental and physical health challenges, and major disruption in how we live our daily lives. All the more reason to smile when you see... Read More
Seamless Learning in the Time of Covid-19
Take a moment and consider this question: why are so many schools not working “normally”? Why has learning been so disrupted that student progress and growth has slowed since March, and that most students won’t manage the next... Read More
The End of Grades: A Better Approach for Assessing Student Work
In the COVID-19 era, most school districts are struggling with grading policies, colleges are dropping testing requirements, and students have the option to switch to pass/fail results instead of letter grades. With all this, it's... Read More
More In-Depth Work Means Better Learning Performance
One of the unique features of Quest Forward Learning is our approach to assessment of a student' learning performance. Rather than having a small number of high stakes exams drive everything, we instead have a large number of low... Read More
Why Being Curious Is Essential
Quest Forward Learning is intentionally designed to encourage and support students in being curious through activities such as the habits program and curriculum, quest-based curricula, projects and electives, the design of Quest... Read More