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• Communication - Mastery-Based Learning

  A variety of communications toolkits are available to assist schools and school districts in explaining the changes necessary to implement Mastery-Based Learning.

• Elements of Mastery-Based Learning

  The elements of Mastery-Based Learning.

• What Are Flexible Pathways for Learning?

  Personalized learning pathways empower students to pursue their passions while encouraging them to take more responsibility for their education. Students work with their teachers to blend a variety of educational experiences that satisfy graduation competencies and meet state-required standards, such as career-and-technical, college-level, and online courses, in addition to internships, apprenticeships, and volunteer opportunities that are intentionally designed to integrate with a student’s academic learning.

• Formative Assessment - Mastery-Based Learning

  The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.

• Guidelines for Implementing Mastery-Based Learning

  In accordance with the Connecticut General Statutes (C.G.S.) Section 10-221a(f)(3) passed by the Connecticut State Legislature, the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) is required to create and distribute guidance to support educators in schools and districts interested in implementing a mastery-based system as follows.

• Issues in Grading - Mastery-Based Learning

  Issues in grading and their implications.

• Spotlight on Connecticut

  Most of the following Connecticut schools and districts are members of the League of Innovative Schools (LIS) and are engaged in Mastery-Based Learning. LIS is a regional professional learning community for secondary schools committed to educational equity, student-centered learning and ongoing improvement.

• Student Success Plan - Mastery-Based Learning

  A student success plan, also called a personalized learning plan, means a plan developed on behalf of a student by the student, a representative of the school, and, if the student is a minor, the student’s parents or a legal guardian, and updated at least annually.

• Student Voice and Choice - Mastery-Based Learning

  In education, student voice refers to the values, opinions, beliefs, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds of individual students and groups of students in a school, and to instructional approaches and techniques that are based on student choices, interests, passions, and ambitions.

• Community Engagement - Mastery-Based Learning

  Engaging communities is an essential step in the conversion from a traditional, time-based system to a personalized, competency-based one. The following resources may be helpful to developing a community engagement strategy and communications capacity.

• Connecticut State Standards - Mastery-Based Learning

  Standards define the goals of education- what students need to learn- not the processes of education or how schools are structured or how they operate. In recent years, a guiding principle in K-12 standards has been to clearly define what students should know and be able to do through out their K-12 experience anchored in college- and career-ready expectations.

• Definitions of Different Types of Competencies - Mastery-Based Learning

  State standards provide the foundation—the grade-level learning progressions that teachers use to design their curriculum—but schools determine how standards will be implemented, including which standards must be met.

• Designing a Grading System - Mastery-Based Learning

  In every grading system, numbers or letters are merely signifiers, and their meaning is entirely derived from the reliability of the systems used to make a grading determination. In other words, the accuracy, authority, and dependability of all grades depend on the quality of the methods used to award them.

• Planning for Mastery-Based Learning

  Mastery-based learning is a complex approach to learning. Implementing mastery-based learning in a school or school district will have an impact on most of the education systems from hiring, professional learning, instruction, assessment among others.

• Project-Based Learning - Mastery-Based Learning

  Project-based learning refers to any programmatic or instructional approach that utilizes multifaceted projects as a central organizing strategy for educating students.