Mastery Blog - Mastery Portfolio

October 7, 2021·

Rebooting the Education System

Episode 68 of the podcast Your Life By Design, hosted by Dr. Sundaras, features Mastery Portfolio’s CEO Constance Borro. In this episode, Rebooting The Education System, Constance shares Mastery Portfolio’s…

September 27, 2021·

Effectively Communicate with Families About Your Shift to Standards-Based Grading with the Mastery Book

Has your school shifted to Standards Based Grading or thinking about it? It's important we communicate with parents so they understand the implications. Read on to learn more.

September 3, 2021·

Grading Software Made by Teachers for Teachers finds Success Bootstrapping

A startup making software for tracking student progress – launched by a teacher who landed then- employer Columbus School for Girls as her first customer – already is making enough…

July 16, 2021·

Mastery Portfolio Adds Starr Sackstein as Chief Operating Officer and Partner

Mastery Portfolio, a growing, Columbus-based Edtech start-up built by teachers for teachers with a mission to revolutionize how grading, reporting, and thereby learning is done in schools, has added Starr…

May 16, 2021·

Reconsidering End of Year Grading for Student Mastery

The more involved and authentic we make end of year assessment of learning, the more engaged the students will be in their learning all year. Ownership of one's learning is…

December 8, 2020·

Founder Constance Borro featured on 614StartUps Podcast

Listen to Constance's conversation with with host Elio Harmon about the imperative to transform traditional grading into a student-centered learning journey.

January 17, 2020·

The Day I Knew I Needed Standards-Based Grading

In both my undergraduate and graduate education classes, I noticed a collection of “jargony,” idyllic pedagogical practices and theories that were religiously brushed on but quickly tucked into the brain…

January 2, 2020·

Mastery Learning: Where do I start?

Mastery Learning is the vision you can’t unsee. There’s no going back to the old system of points and averages. “What did you get? I got a 92. What? You…

October 15, 2019·

Could Mastery Teaching Be the Answer?

So now that we know that our current education system operates on a series of false assumptions- that the role of teachers is to sort and rank kids, that talent…