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August 2, 2022·

Developing the Draft, the 1st Five Days of Learning

What will you do with the first day of school? How will you get to know your students better?

August 2, 2022·

The first five days of school are critical to establishing rapport and developing crucial relationships that will mark the tone and success of the year.

July 7, 2022·

Competency-Based Grading Made Easier with the MasteryBook by Jordana Benone, High School Teacher and MasteryBook User

Teacher confession: The end of the school year has always been tough for me. While there is always lots of celebration and relief that the end has come, the realities…

July 5, 2022·

Student Reflections: MasteryBook

In advance of their grading conferences at the end of the 2021-2022 school year, Portal students were asked to reflect on a number of questions about their learning. One of…

May 19, 2022·

Starr Sackstein on the Second Edition of her book Hacking Assessment

Starr Sackstein on her New BookHacking Assessment Second Edition Listen to Mastery Portfolio’s COO, Starr Sackstein, on the Equity & Access Pre-K 12 Podcast as she discusses her new book…

May 19, 2022·

Deepen Reflection, Deepen Learning

Teachers can learn a lot from asking students to reflect and self-assess against the standards and we do the students and ourselves a disservice by not making it an expectation.…

May 16, 2022·

A Better Way to Report Learning

What is the function of a student report card? What does it seek to communicate? How effectively do most student report cards share information about individual student achievement? What if…

April 21, 2022·

The Emotional Weight of Being Graded, for Better or Worse

The trouble with these extreme emotional reactions to grades is that students’ knowledge of a subject is tied to their experience of the grade.

April 7, 2022·

Giving Effective Feedback

In this episode, Isaac and Starr Sackstein discuss giving effective feedback and ways teachers can manage giving feedback and holding students accountable in order to be efficient in maintaining the…