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• Why Mastery-Based Learning?

  Rather assuming that completing a number of hours in a classroom results in understanding, mastery-based learning requires students to demonstrate knowledge and skills before progressing to the next level. Mastery-based learning requires teachers to develop a more fine-grained understanding of student abilities.

• 10 Principles of Mastery-Based Learning

  To help schools establish a philosophical and pedagogical foundation for their work, the Great Schools Partnership created the following “Ten Principles of Mastery-Based Learning,” which describe the common features found in the most effective mastery-based systems.

• 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.

• 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

  Paraeducator of the Year 2019 - Marisol Rodriguez began her career as a Paraeducator twenty-three years ago.

• Paraeducator Information and Resources

  A paraeducator is an employee who assists teachers and/or other professional educators or therapists in the delivery of instructional and related services to students.

• COVID-19 Resources for Families and Educators

• 2021-2022 School Year Guidance