Posts by Chris Sturgis
What I Missed (Or Even Got Wrong)
A middle school in Santa Fe invited 120 students who were not thriving in remote learning back into school and volunteers served as tutors and coaches.
Finding Your Entry Point to Mastery Learning
Chris shares two questions and two resources to help find your entry point to mastery learning.
Mastery Learning in Action
Mastery Learning in Action, a paper recently published by the Mastery Transcript Consortium, offers a comparative structure based on visits and interview from five of its member schools.
Shining the Competency Education Light on Education in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 has created the conditions for a radical transformation in our schools. Chris discusses how personalized, mastery-based, competency, and proficiency-based approaches help teachers and schools.
How the Research on Learning Can Drive Change
Chris talks about concepts that research has uncovered about how we learn and how those can be used to drive change.
Holacracy: Organizing for Change at D51
Holacracy is a system for agile self-organizing. At District 51 change management was and is being facilitated by a holacratic structure.
Supporting Teachers with Professional Learning at District 51
As Mesa County Valley School District 51 continues its shift to a competency-based education model, it is also shifting its focus on professional development to professional learning for educators.
Holacracy: Organizing For Change At District 51
Holacracy is a system for self-organizing, so that as context changes, so can the organization. Here is more on how Mesa Valley County School District 51 is implementing this model internally as they shift to a competency-based education system.
Growing Into The Framework: A District’s CBE Implementation Strategy
In its journey to shift to a competency-based learning model, Mesa County Valley School District 51 leadership is working to ensure there is strong support in place for all of its 44 schools as they grow into this new framework.
The Vision of Performance-Based Education at District 51
During my visit to District 51 in Colorado to observe its shift to competency-based education, I learned more about how leadership is shaping the overall vision to create a culture that includes growth mindset and social & emotional learning.