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Supporting Teachers at D51: A Conversation with the Professional Learning Facilitators

Chris Sturgis June 23, 2020 No Comments

This article is the seventh in the Designing Performance-Based Learning at D51 series. A reminder: D51 uses the phrase performance-based learning or P-BL. Leigh Grasso, Director of Academic Achievement &…

Laying the Foundation with Culture and Climate

Chris Sturgis June 21, 2020 No Comments

This article is the sixth in the Designing Performance-Based Learning at D51 series. A reminder: D51 uses the phrase performance-based learning or P-BL. The first of District 51’s five phases…

Mastery-Based Learning in Idaho

Chris Sturgis February 3, 2020 No Comments

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…

The Sharp Ones: A Few Takeaways from Idaho

Chris Sturgis February 1, 2020 No Comments

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…

Still Learning from Delivering on the Promise

Chris Sturgis January 6, 2020 No Comments

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…

Redesign at Pittsfield School District (Part 1)

Chris Sturgis March 21, 2019 No Comments

This article was originally published on CompetencyWorks in 2014. It was a delight to visit Pittsfield School District (PSD) to learn about the redesign of the district starting with the…

Hand in Hand: Pittsfield Integrates Personalized Learning and Competency Education

Chris Sturgis March 21, 2019 No Comments

(This is the second in a series about Pittsfield. The article was originally published in 2014 at CompetencyWorks.) One of my big takeaways from my visit to New Hampshire is…

Pittsfield Rethinks Adult Roles (Part 3)

Chris Sturgis March 21, 2019 No Comments

(This is the third part of a series on Pittsfield. The article was originally published at CompetencyWorks in 2014.) One of the big questions that we have barely begun to…

Implementation Insights from Pittsfield School District (Part 4)

Chris Sturgis March 21, 2019 No Comments

(This is the last of a four-part series on Pittsfield.The original article was published on CompetencyWorks in 2014.) That’s a constant refrain when talking to districts converting from traditional curriculum/time-based…

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