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• 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.

• Readiness - Mastery-Based Learning

  Tools to assess readiness and progress of district in implementing Mastery-Based Learning.

• Paraeducator of the Year 2019 Ceremony

  Photo gallery of the paraeducator of the year 2019 ceremony

• Reimbursement Rates for Child Nutrition Programs

  Information on the reimbursement rates for meals and snacks served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Child Nutrition Programs.

• Connecticut SAT School Day

  This page provides information about The Connecticut SAT School Day that is administered to all students in Grade 11.

• CACFP At-risk Afterschool Care Centers

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture's CACFP in at-risk afterschool care centers provides cash assistance for nutritious snacks and meals served at no charge to students ages 18 and younger in afterschool programs.