This is the seventh post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
Throughout the conversations during the site visit to Columbia High School, there were many important insights. Principal Cory Woolstenhulme reflected,….. Read More
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This is the eighth post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
The conversation with Cory Woolstenhulme, principal of Columbia High School, was rich with insights. He is reflective and candid,….. Read More
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This is the first post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho.
In April 2018, I went on a whirlwind tour of seven schools in four districts in Idaho in an effort to understand how mastery-based learning was advancing there. Idaho is a big,….. Read More
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This is the ninth post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
“I was badly behind. No teacher would ever stop to help me. I even had a teacher scream at me once when I asked a question…… Read More
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This is the sixth post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
Columbia High School in the Nampa School District is the only comprehensive high school moving to personalized learning among the Idaho mastery-based learning pilots…… Read More
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This is the fourth post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
Kuna School District in Idaho established Initial Point High School eight years ago because it believes that every student has the “potential to be successful socially and academically if they choose the correct environment and apply themselves.” Initial Point,….. Read More
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This is the third post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
During my visit to Synergy at Kuna Middle School, the conversation with Kelly Brady, Idaho Department of Education;….. Read More
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This is the tenth article in the series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles can be found below.
Oh, there is so much to learn in Idaho. Where to start?
1) Learning from others and making it your own…… Read More
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High school is a lot of things…and one of those things is that it is one long four year old game based on the rules set for grading. Students can get points added or subtracted for behaviors. At some schools they might get more points for taking an AP course…… Read More
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It continues to be a pleasure to read the story of Chugach School District’s journey of transformation described in Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution (DeLorenzo, Battino, Schreiber, and Carrio, 2009). Even though the term competency-based education is not mentioned once in the book,….. Read More
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All the photos of students actively engaged in learning were used in the original blogs on CompetencyWorks. They are courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action.
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