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• Extended Learning Opportunities - Mastery-Based Learning

  Extended Learning Opportunities (ELOs) are an integral part of Mastery-Based Learning. In a Mastery-Based environment instruction is fundamentally designed around the learner and learning pathways are flexible to meet students' needs while leveraging their interests.

• 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.

• Frequently Asked Questions about Mastery-Based Learning

  Mastery-based learning refers to systems of instruction, assessment, grading, and academic reporting that are based on students demonstrating that they have learned the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn as they progress through their education.

• 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.

• 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.

• How Does Mastery-Based Learning Work?

  With mastery-based learning, all students must demonstrate what they have learned before moving on. Before students can pass a course, move on to the next grade level, or graduate, they must demonstrate that they have mastered the skills and knowledge they were expected to learn.

• Instruction - Mastery-Based Learning

  There are many similarities between traditional classroom instruction and instruction in a mastery-based learning classroom. In both, there will be a need for direct instruction at times. Both approaches depend on defining the desired results. However, there are also differences.

• Issues in Grading - Mastery-Based Learning

  Issues in grading and their implications.

• Mastery-Based Learning Resource Center

  This website is designed to support local school districts that choose to implement Mastery-Based Learning, as well as families and community partners who want to learn more about this model.

• Mastery-Based Learning Standards and Graduation Competencies

  Common Core State Standards will help students achieve at high levels and help them learn what they need to know to get to graduation and beyond.

• Mastery-Based Learning Video Resources for Families

  Video resources for families.

• Performance Assessment - Mastery-Based Learning

  Information on and resources related to Performance Assessment in Mastery-Based Learning.

• Connecticut Online Application and Claiming System for Child Nutrition Programs (CNP System)

  The CNP System is a web-based software solution that provides Connecticut administrators, state users, and sponsors with efficient and immediate access to applications, claims, and related nutrition program functions for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Child Nutrition Programs.

• Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture's CEP provides an alternative approach for offering school meals in local educational agencies and schools in low-income areas, instead of collecting individual household applications for free and reduced-price meals in school nutrition programs.

• Competitive Foods in Schools

  Guidance on complying with the state and federal regulations governing the sale of competitive foods sold to students in schools. Competitive foods are any foods and beverages sold to students on school premises other than meals served through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's school nutrition programs.