Grassroots Learning is an educational lifestyle and skill development system focused on the continual mobilization and sharing of knowledge resources. Mission workshops allow participants to earn a variety of points from their cultivation of community skills and talents.
Proficiency in a Specialty Skill is tracked by a wheel of Aptitude Points (aP) ranging from 1 to 360 for each category. A Branch and its Members can gain an Aptitude point by serving as the Hosting Patron of a mission workshop. These are official Kindren Tree events where Members develop and share community resources.
Workshop admins (“Hosts”) function as educational Track Managers as they coordinate skill resources for the project. They can only earn Aptitude Upgrades in the specific Skill field that is being focused on in that workshop. Also, the event must be attended by enough qualifying Guest Patrons in order for the Host to earn the upgrade.
There are 4 Skill Aptitude ranks based on the number of points collected under a particular Skill:
Specialty Skills are grouped under Skill Day sections that contain related subcategories of skills. This framework is inspired by the MLX story project and it reflects the cyclical nature of our learning method.
From the Skill Day listing section at the top of this page you can view all available Skills organized by their Day section. The Skill ID number displayed next to each listing is used for administrative processing.
The following graphic describes the process of the Grassroots Learning system.
The Root Mission page has a more detailed description of the workshop registration and educational tracking process.
Mission Medals are permanently awarded to Member parties that achieve the qualifying ranks for a set of related Skills. From the Medal Rank listing section at the top of this page you can view all available Medal programs organized by their Skill Day and Aptitude ranks.
The Medal ID number displayed next to each listing is used for administrative processing. The prerequisite set of Skills is displayed under each Mission Medal's title.
