We recently changed our name to Competency Collaborative from Mastery Collaborative.
Why the name change?
At its heart, our community’s work is about disrupting harmful power dynamics in school. We seek collectively to change spaces and systems of oppression to those of joy, freedom, love and liberation. We are moving away from the term mastery because of its connotation of dominance, and the connection of the word “master” to the history of enslavement.
Shifting our language is a journey. Please join us! We suggest talking about competency-based education, rather than mastery-based education. We are using words such as proficiency and competency to replace the word mastery—and more broadly reflecting always about language and other messaging and substance that can make a space more or less liberatory.
Shifting our domain, emails, Twitter, etc. is also a journey! We are going at the pace of our own capacity and appreciate your grace through the transition.