Bringing Reflection into Your Classroom: Why It Matters

Listen to this podcast featuring Starr Sackstein and Robert Pennington to learn why student reflection is so essential to mastery and how to bring reflection into your classroom successfully. Follow on Twitter: @robpennington9 @MsSackstein @ASCD @bamradionetwork Are you interested in learning more about reflection practices? Connect with a Mastery Portfolio team member.

An interview with Mastery Portfolio

Mastery Portfolio is an equitable assessment design firm that partners with schools to holistically bring their vision for innovative, responsible, equitable educational outcomes to life for their community.

Mastery Portfolio: CodeLaunch Champions!

 We are humbled and thrilled to share that Mastery Portfolio was awarded both Judges’ Choice and Audience Choice Awards at Thursday’s CodeLaunch Hackathon/Pitch Competition, presented by Cyrannus.  It gives us renewed hope to see our mission resonate with such a wide audience.  We were inspired by everyone who shared a personal testimony about their educational journey after the show. Please […]

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 when facing my gradebook make me question every move I made. Of course, this was worse when I graded on points and averages, but even with the change to standards-based and then competency-based grading, I still had my struggles.

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 the questions was, “How did your understanding of your learning change once we started to use MasteryBook? What did you do differently once you had MasteryBook as a tool?”

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 Hacking Assessment Volume 2, coming this July!     In this episode, Larry Jacobs and Starr not only discuss her new book but dive into […]