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It’s Elementary: What Mastery-Based Learning Looks Like in the Early Years

Chris Sturgis December 13, 2022 No Comments

Much of the mastery-based approach can be found in elementary schools, especially meeting students where they are. However, there are still practices in elementary schools that are more aligned with compliance…

Summer Learning

Chris Sturgis May 26, 2022 No Comments

What do you want to learn this summer? Here are a few of the options available on project-based learning, grading for equity, and classroom practices that might be helpful for…

What Will Students Experience in a Competency-Based School?

Chris Sturgis June 27, 2020 No Comments

What will students experience in a competency-based school? Below are a set of examples of experiences that every student should have in a well-developed personalized, competency-based system that was developed…

Steps Toward Maturity: Introducing the Concept of Student Autonomy (Part 2)

Chris Sturgis June 1, 2020 No Comments

In the first part of this series, I call for us to be strategic in how we communicate the concepts related to student agency to the general public while also…

FAQ: How to create a community of learners when students are at different levels?

Chris Sturgis March 10, 2020 No Comments

How do teachers manage a community of learners when students are all at different levels? This is a question that comes up a lot because it is so hard to…

Predatory Grading

Chris Sturgis January 6, 2020 1 Comment

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…

Classroom Assessment is About Closing Gaps

Chris Sturgis June 5, 2019 No Comments

I have never been a teacher. Thus, I don’t write very much about instruction and assessment as my knowledge base is about the size of a raindrop compared to the…

UMPI: Faculty Perspective

Chris Sturgis April 1, 2019 No Comments

This post is part of a series on the University of Maine at Presque Isle originally posted at CompetencyWorks in 2016. During my visit to University of Maine at Presque…

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