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• Report Card - Mastery-Based Learning

• Resources for Students, Parents, and Communities

  In a Mastery-Based Learning environment, students demonstrate mastery based on competencies and performance standards built from the Connecticut Core Standards and Connecticut Content Standards (social studies, arts, science, and career and technical education).

• 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.

• Grading - Mastery-Based Learning

  One of the primary goals of a mastery-based grading system is to produce grades that more accurately reflect a student’s learning progress and achievement, including situations in which students struggled early on in a semester or school year, but then put in the effort and hard work needed to meet expected standards.

• Supporting Organizations

  Organizations that support Mastery-Based Learning.

• Unit Design - Mastery-Based Learning

  Because mastery-based learning focuses on results, the Backward Design approach to unit design fits well. In brief, the stages of the Backward Design approach are summarized below

• Standards vs. Competencies - Mastery-Based Learning

  Standards are the responsibility of the State Board of Education. Standards are proposed by the Connecticut Department of Education and adopted by the State Board of Education. Competencies are the knowledge, skills, and/or behaviors students must master in specific content or performance areas according to the OLD Foundation.

• Communications Toolkit - Mastery-Based Learning

  The materials in the communications toolkit can help start the conversation about Mastery-Based Learning in your community.

• 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.

• School Interoperability Framework (SIF)

  SIF allows districts to directedly transmit data from their student information system to some applications.

• Apply to a School Choice Program

  The Connecticut State Department of Education’s (CSDE) commitment to public school choice is evident in the different types of public school choice programming available statewide.

• Magnet Schools

  School Choice programs and interdistrict magnet schools are designed to attract students from different school districts to learn together in settings that offer unique, high-quality, themed educational opportunities.

• Open Choice Programs

  The Open Choice program allows urban students to attend public schools in nearby suburban towns.

• Agricultural Science and Technology (ASTE)

  Agricultural Science and Technology Education (ASTE) programs serve secondary students in full- and shared- time programs. ASTE programs prepare students for college and careers in animal science, agribusiness, agricultural mechanics, aquaculture, biotechnology, food science, marine technology, natural resources, and plant science.