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December 15, 2021·

Teaching Students to Understand Standards

What good are standards if students don't understand them? Students need to understand the expectations, in a language that makes sense to them, so why not have them rewrite them?

December 15, 2021·

Compliance Isn’t Mastery of Learning

As every new year begins, so does the adventure. After you've had time to reflect on this past school year, what will be your five goals for next year?

December 14, 2021·

When Students Design the Assessment, Everyone Wins

Sometimes we throw ideas into the wind in our classroom and hope for the best. Even when we are intentional there are times that we just don’t know what will…

December 3, 2021·

Report Cards Don’t Adequately Communicate Learning

Grades don't communicate learning, even the students are starting to see that. Read on to see one student's take on report cards and why they fail at assessing student learning.

December 3, 2021·

Make Standards Visible in Mastery Communication

Learning is an on-going process and it seems inadequate and arbitrary to try to label learning along the way when it looks so different for so many students. But since…

December 2, 2021·

The MasteryBook customizable reports: Stop feeling limited by your reporting software

Feeling limited by your reporting software?

December 1, 2021·

Students Self-Assess for Mastery

In the third week of our start of school series for setting up a no-grades classroom, Isaac and I tackle the selection of power standards and building progressions for mastery…

November 24, 2021·

Giving Thanks for a Great Team and Our Partner Schools

At Mastery Portfolio, we believe in being thankful every day of the year, not just on Thanksgiving. However, in the holiday spirit, we took a few minutes to reflect and…

November 17, 2021·

Mastery Portfolio’s, Starr Sackstein on the Dr. Will Show

In this episode of the Dr. Will Show, Dr. Will Deyamport III and Starr Sackstein discuss the importance of shifting the conversation about and practices around how most schools approach…