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LEAP Innovations 2020 Framework
Informed by their collective networks’ key learnings and lessons, LEAP Innovations updated their Personalized Learning Framework for 2020.
Getting Smart on Mastery Learning
As a culmination of our mastery learning series, we have compiled a Smart Bundle that documents the necessary steps to making these mastery systems measurable, effective and scalable.
5 Ways to Make All Students Lead Learners
Teaching is the highest form of learning. Yet many students never have the opportunity to become lead learners where they learn at the highest level by having the responsibility of teaching others. Check out five ways all educators can expand the opportunity for all students to learn at the highest level by all becoming teachers.
Moving Toward Mastery Learning: Practical Steps for Making Progress
The education of today is adapting in order to enable learners to meet the future of tomorrow. Mastery learning is a combination of student-centered learning objectives and thresholds supported with strategies that can create powerful, replicable results and provides a plan to meet future education needs.
Examples of Mastery Thresholds to Enable Mastery Learning in Multiple Subjects
By: Scott Ellis. Learning objectives and mastery thresholds are the starting point for mastery learning and the skeleton that organizes the content for learning and assessment. This post shares examples of MasteryTrack's collaboration with particular schools and networks to create mastery thresholds associated with specific learning objectives in multiple content areas.
Demonstrating and Assessing Mastery, and Managing Mastery Learning Data
By Scott Ellis. With learning objectives that are specific, clear and demonstrable and with mastery thresholds that are clearly defined, determining approaches for students to demonstrate mastery is a relatively straightforward two-step process.
Mastery Learning Objectives and Mastery Thresholds in the Classroom
By: Scott Ellis To implement mastery learning and enable students to move forward at their own pace as they master content, five elements must be in place. It does not matter whether they are in MasteryTrack or another system, but without them, mastery learning at scale is not possible. Specific,…
What is Mastery Learning?
By Scott Ellis. Today, through technology, tools, and expertise, we have the ability to scale mastery learning at a national level. The question is: will we choose to do it?
Does Mastery Mean Mastered?
Ask a teacher, “How do you know your students can add fractions?” Ask a project manager, “How do you know if team members are really collaborating?” It is challenging to define competencies that are clear and signal important priorities without being oversimplified. Assessing and tracking skills is complicated. In a…
Developing Skills for School, Work and Life Requires a Systematic Approach
Current research demonstrates that all learners develop college and career skills in a wave pattern that ebbs and flows, but constantly pushes forward to higher levels of expertise. David Ross explores this and other skill development models.