Event Archive

Webinar 17: Crafting & Utilizing School-Wide Outcomes

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

3:45 p.m - 4:45 p.m PST

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In this webinar, we will explore the ways in which school-wide outcomes (which can also be called profile, portrait, or traits of a graduate, or cross-cutting skills) can be used to build a school-wide shared language of learning and a culture of creativity, curiosity, connection, and scholarship. Guest presenters from Avanti High School in Olympia and The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria in New York City will describe how they use shared outcomes with their students.

Outcomes:

• Explore how schools can work with families and community members to craft their school-wide outcomes;

• Learn about strategies schools can use to integrate student voice and vision in their school wide outcomes;

• Hear about how educators across the school integrate the school wide outcomes into their teaching and into the language of the learning community

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda 

• Slides

•  Watch the Recording  

PLC Session 4 for Cohort 1

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

3:30 p.m - 5:00 p.m PST

✅ REGISTER NOW!

In interest-driven groups, we will learn with and from each others' experiences, questions, and passions. We'll take a collaborative approach to exploring school change, principles and practices of culturally responsive-sustaining education & MBL, educational equity, and youth-/child-centered approaches—focusing on aspects that are of highest interest to the group.  All PLCs will be held virtually.

What will we do in PLC sessions?

Our PLC is where we can talk shop and reflect, share resources and inspirations, talk through questions, and strategize about the complexities of our work—in community with school colleagues and folks from other MBLC member school teams.

Who should sign up?

Your school's MBLC team (or a minimum of 3-4 members). Each member of your MBLC team is invited to choose which interest-driven PLC to attend. MBLC team colleagues can decide if they want to be all together in one PLC, or spread out and share back to each other.

MBLC school principals are warmly welcome, but optional. 

The Interest-driven PLC Choices are: 

1. Project-based Unit/Assessment Design for MBL: This PLC will be a space where teachers can share learning, questions, dilemmas and successes in crafting project-based units or assessments. We will learn about and explore how to craft projects that are culturally responsive and that enable students to explore ideas and develop criticality while building academic skills. We also discuss and share ideas about how to integrate mastery-based approaches into projects.

2. Grading for Accuracy and Equity: This PLC will be a space where educators and school leaders can explore culturally responsive-sustaining, mastery-based approaches to feedback and grading. Participants will explore tools and systems together, discuss challenges and dilemmas, and share resources.

3. CRSE Foundations: This PLC will offer space to explore culturally responsive-sustaining education (CRSE). What does CRSE look like in classrooms and schools? How do CRSE and MBL interplay to benefit academic growth and wellbeing? What does CRSE call upon us to learn and unlearn? We'll look into these questions—and yours!—as we work with the three pillars of CRSE, and build capacity with key principles and practices of this powerful approach to effective, affirming, learner-centered school. (updated PLC focus)

Session Dates:  

Please plan to join all 5 PLC sessions. This will help us with building connections and following through in a collective learning space. Thank you!

1. Tuesday, October 24, (first meeting in person as part of our Fall Gathering)

2. Tuesday, November 28, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

3. Tuesday, February 13, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

4. Tuesday, March 12, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

5. Tuesday, May 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Webinar 16: Using Data to Select an Equity Focus

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

3:45 p.m - 4:45 p.m PST

In this webinar we will explore how schools can use their data to identify and prioritize equity issues and areas of strength in their programs. We will also discuss classroom examples of how MBL, CRSE, and Antiracist approaches can be used to address various inequities.

Outcomes:

• explore how schools can use data to select an equity focus

• explore how schools can use data to identify assets and strengths

• explore how schools can address inequities using MBL, CRS, or Anti-racist strategies

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda 

• Slides

• Watch the Recording  

PLC Session 3 for Cohort 1

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

3:30 p.m - 5:00 p.m PST

✅ REGISTER NOW!

In interest-driven groups, we will learn with and from each others' experiences, questions, and passions. We'll take a collaborative approach to exploring school change, principles and practices of culturally responsive-sustaining education & MBL, educational equity, and youth-/child-centered approaches—focusing on aspects that are of highest interest to the group.  All PLCs will be held virtually.

What will we do in PLC sessions?

Our PLC is where we can talk shop and reflect, share resources and inspirations, talk through questions, and strategize about the complexities of our work—in community with school colleagues and folks from other MBLC member school teams.

Who should sign up?

Your school's MBLC team (or a minimum of 3-4 members). Each member of your MBLC team is invited to choose which interest-driven PLC to attend. MBLC team colleagues can decide if they want to be all together in one PLC, or spread out and share back to each other.

MBLC school principals are warmly welcome, but optional. 

The Interest-driven PLC Choices are: 

1. Project-based Unit/Assessment Design for MBL: This PLC will be a space where teachers can share learning, questions, dilemmas and successes in crafting project-based units or assessments. We will learn about and explore how to craft projects that are culturally responsive and that enable students to explore ideas and develop criticality while building academic skills. We also discuss and share ideas about how to integrate mastery-based approaches into projects.

2. Grading for Accuracy and Equity: This PLC will be a space where educators and school leaders can explore culturally responsive-sustaining, mastery-based approaches to feedback and grading. Participants will explore tools and systems together, discuss challenges and dilemmas, and share resources.

3. CRSE Foundations: This PLC will offer space to explore culturally responsive-sustaining education (CRSE). What does CRSE look like in classrooms and schools? How do CRSE and MBL interplay to benefit academic growth and wellbeing? What does CRSE call upon us to learn and unlearn? We'll look into these questions—and yours!—as we work with the three pillars of CRSE, and build capacity with key principles and practices of this powerful approach to effective, affirming, learner-centered school. (updated PLC focus)

Session Dates:  

Please plan to join all 5 PLC sessions. This will help us with building connections and following through in a collective learning space. Thank you!

1. Tuesday, October 24, (first meeting in person as part of our Fall Gathering)

2. Tuesday, November 28, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

3. Tuesday, February 13, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

4. Tuesday, March 12, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

5. Tuesday, May 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

PLC Session 2 (Cohort 2): Principles & Practices of Learner-Centered CRSE/MBL
(Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education & Mastery-based Learning)

3:45 p.m - 5:15 p.m PST

✅ REGISTER NOW!

Session Agenda

This PLC is designed for Cohort 2 MBLC member school teams. These five online sessions will be both informative and highly interactive. 

Come meet and learn with other schools in the new MBLC Cohort 2. We're excited to work with you.

We request each Cohort 2 school to register 3-4+ from your MBLC team as participants in all 5 sessions in this PLC series. 

What will we do in PLC sessions?

Our PLC is where we can talk shop and reflect, share resources and inspirations, talk through questions, and strategize about the complexities of our work—in community with school colleagues and folks from other MBLC member school teams.

Who should sign up?

Your MBLC Cohort 2 school's MBLC team (or a minimum of 3-4 members).

Session Dates:  

Please plan to join all 5 PLC sessions. This will help us with building connections and following through in a collective learning space. Thank you!

1. Monday, January 8, 2024 | 3:45-5:15 pm: Welcome & Intro to MBLC

2. Monday, February 5, 2024 | 3:45-5:15 pm: Principles & Practices of learner-centered CRSE/MBL
   (Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education & Mastery-based Learning)

3. Monday, March 11, 2024 | 3:45-5:15 pm: MBLC Implementation Steps

4. Monday, April 22, 2024 | 3:45-5:15 pm: Crafting your MBLC Work Plan & Budget

5. Monday, May 20, 2024 | 3:45-5:15 pm: School-to-School Share Out

Winter Community Gathering

Thursday, January 11, 2024   | 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Location: Virtual Via Zoom

Materials/Resources

• • • Participant Agenda 

    • Google Slide Deck

    • This event was not recorded

Winter Gathering Outcomes:

• Build community with others in the MBLC

• Explore MBL and CRSE as strategies for educational equity, within and across our schools

• Communicate clearly and powerfully about changes we are planning and making, and the purpose for our work

PLC Session 2

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

3:30 p.m - 5:00 p.m PST

✅ REGISTER NOW!

In interest-driven groups, we will learn with and from each others' experiences, questions, and passions. We'll take a collaborative approach to exploring school change, principles and practices of culturally responsive-sustaining education & MBL, educational equity, and youth-/child-centered approaches—focusing on aspects that are of highest interest to the group.  All PLCs will be held virtually.

What will we do in PLC sessions?

Our PLC is where we can talk shop and reflect, share resources and inspirations, talk through questions, and strategize about the complexities of our work—in community with school colleagues and folks from other MBLC member school teams.

Who should sign up?

Your school's MBLC team (or a minimum of 3-4 members). Each member of your MBLC team is invited to choose which interest-driven PLC to attend. MBLC team colleagues can decide if they want to be all together in one PLC, or spread out and share back to each other.

MBLC school principals are warmly welcome, but optional. 

The Interest-driven PLC Choices are: 

1. Project-based Unit/Assessment Design for MBL: This PLC will be a space where teachers can share learning, questions, dilemmas and successes in crafting project-based units or assessments. We will learn about and explore how to craft projects that are culturally responsive and that enable students to explore ideas and develop criticality while building academic skills. We also discuss and share ideas about how to integrate mastery-based approaches into projects.

2. Grading for Accuracy and Equity: This PLC will be a space where educators and school leaders can explore culturally responsive-sustaining, mastery-based approaches to feedback and grading. Participants will explore tools and systems together, discuss challenges and dilemmas, and share resources.

3. CRSE Foundations: This PLC will offer space to explore culturally responsive-sustaining education (CRSE). What does CRSE look like in classrooms and schools? How do CRSE and MBL interplay to benefit academic growth and wellbeing? What does CRSE call upon us to learn and unlearn? We'll look into these questions—and yours!—as we work with the three pillars of CRSE, and build capacity with key principles and practices of this powerful approach to effective, affirming, learner-centered school. (updated PLC focus)

Session Dates:  

Please plan to join all 5 PLC sessions. This will help us with building connections and following through in a collective learning space. Thank you!

1. Tuesday, October 24, (first meeting in person as part of our Fall Gathering)

2. Tuesday, November 28, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

3. Tuesday, February 13, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

4. Tuesday, March 12, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

5. Tuesday, May 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Webinar 14: “It’s Just Good Teaching:” CRS MBL in Action

Thursday, November 2, 2023

3:45 p.m - 4:45 p.m PST

In this webinar, we will explore specific classroom strategies that teachers can use to increase their clarity, encourage students to set goals and track their own progress, and provide multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression for students.

Outcomes:

• Review connections between Universal Design for Learning and CRS MBL

• Explore techniques for creating units, lessons, and assessments using Universal Design for Learning

• Discuss examples of classroom strategies using Universal Design for Learning

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda 

• Webinar Slide deck 

•  Watch the Recording  

Professional Learning Communities

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The first PLC meeting will be in person at the Fall Community Gathering

✅ REGISTER NOW!

Last year, school MBLC teams were grouped together in PLCs. This year, PLCs are interest-driven. Each member of your MBLC team is invited to choose which PLC to attend. You and your MBLC team colleagues can decide among yourselves if you want to be all together in one PLC, or spread out and share back to each other. As you consider which PLC to participate in, we encourage you to communicate with your MBLC team about what will serve your and your school's MBLC work best.

PLCs will meet 5 times between October and June. In interest-driven groups, we will learn with and from each others' experiences, questions, and passions. We'll take a collaborative approach to exploring school change, principles and practices of culturally responsive-sustaining education & MBL, educational equity, and youth-/child-centered approaches—focusing on aspects that are of highest interest to the group.  PLCs sessions 2-5 be held virtually.

What will we do in PLC sessions?

Our PLC is where we can talk shop and reflect, share resources and inspirations, talk through questions, and strategize about the complexities of our work—in community with school colleagues and folks from other MBLC member school teams.

Who should sign up?

Your school's MBLC team (or a minimum of 3-4 members). Each member of your MBLC team is invited to choose which interest-driven PLC to attend. MBLC team colleagues can decide if they want to be all together in one PLC, or spread out and share back to each other.

MBLC school principals are warmly welcome, but optional. 

The Interest-driven PLC Choices are: 

1. Project-based Unit/Assessment Design for MBL: This PLC will be a space where teachers can share learning, questions, dilemmas and successes in crafting project-based units or assessments. We will learn about and explore how to craft projects that are culturally responsive and that enable students to explore ideas and develop criticality while building academic skills. We also discuss and share ideas about how to integrate mastery-based approaches into projects.

2. Grading for Accuracy and Equity: This PLC will be a space where educators and school leaders can explore culturally responsive-sustaining, mastery-based approaches to feedback and grading. Participants will explore tools and systems together, discuss challenges and dilemmas, and share resources.

3. CRSE Foundations: This PLC will offer space to explore culturally responsive-sustaining education (CRSE). What does CRSE look like in classrooms and schools? How do CRSE and MBL interplay to benefit academic growth and well-being? What does CRSE call upon us to learn and unlearn? We'll look into these questions—and yours!—as we work with the three pillars of CRSE, and build capacity with key principles and practices of this powerful approach to an effective, affirming, learner-centered school. (new PLC focus)

Session Dates:  

Please plan to join all 5 PLC sessions. This will help us with building connections and following through in a collective learning space. Thank you!

1. Tuesday, October 24, (first meeting in person as part of our Fall Gathering)

2. Tuesday, November 28, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

3. Tuesday, February 13, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

4. Tuesday, March 12, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

5. Tuesday, May 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Webinar 13: Catalyzing Sustainable School Change 

Thursday, September 28, 2023

3:45 p.m - 4:45 p.m PST

In this webinar, we will explore how to catalyze lasting school change—starting with establishing clear direction and shared purpose, and building to transformative and sustained schoolwide shifts. We will discuss schoolwide professional learning, collaborative design sessions, professional learning communities, student and community forums, and other strategies to build schoolwide momentum and commitment to creating innovative learning environments that are just, rigorous, equitable, responsive, and welcoming. We will also talk about the role of your MBLC team as the engine of change at your school!

Outcomes:

• Explore examples of schools that built shared commitment to new approaches

• Build understanding of how the principles of design thinking can be used to shape school-wide engagement with new ideas

• Review protocols for PLCs and student and community forums

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda

• Webinar Slide deck

•  Watch the Recording! 

Webinar 12: Virtual Visit to Champlain Valley Union High School

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

3:45 p.m - 4:45 p.m PST

At this webinar, we will welcome presenters Emily Rinkema and Stan Williams from Champlain Valley Union High School (CVUHS) in Vermont. Emily and Stan have spent over a decade designing and improving the proficiency-based system of teaching and learning at CVUHS. Their book, The Standards-Based Classroom, is an essential resource for any educator who is interested in making this shift in their own classroom. 

Outcomes:

• Learn about how CVUHS designed a mastery-based learning system to change how we think about learning.

• Explore how CVUHS’ mastery-based system impacts teaching and learning for students and teachers.

• Learn next steps that educators in various roles can take to build on principles of at the heart of CVUHS' work.

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda

• Watch the Recording!

In-person Community Gathering

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 | 10:00 a.m -3:00 p.m.

Location: Highline College, 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines, WA 98198. 

Meet in Mt. Constance/Mt. Olympus Room at Highline College
View on Campus Map

This event is one of the 3 times each school year when all MBLC member school teams gather to to share and learn together. Please join us!

REGISTER ONLINE

Materials/Resources

• • • Participant Agenda
      
      

Featuring

• Speed round warmup conversations

• Panel of MBLC youth advisors

• Mini-electives on high-interest topics

• Team huddle time

• Pair share with another school
  
  

Who Should Attend?

1. Please register 3-4 members of your MBLC team* if you can—or a minimum of 2 MBLC team members who can share back to your full school team later. (We know you’ll need to hire subs that day!)

2. Puget Sound-area schools**: We invite you to bring 2-3 MBLC Youth Advisors to participate in a student panel at the gathering. 

• Please let us know each student panelist’s name/grade when you register. 

• Please invite your student panelists to participate in an online prep session for youth advisors on Wednesday, April 26, from noon to 1:15 pm. (Click to join with one adult ally from each participating school.) Thank you! 

Accessibility: Fully accessible space, with both ground-level entrance and elevators.

* If you’d like to bring more team members or have questions, please get in touch: joy@newlearningcollaborative.org and/or kgardoqui@greatschoolspartnership.org.

** All MBLC member schools are invited to bring youth advisors to participate in the youth panel at the Gathering—but we know Highline College is a long way to travel for schools in Eastern/Central Washington. We plan to hold our Spring 2024 Gathering in Central Washington, and hope to feature youth advisors from nearby schools. Please let us know what works best for you, your school, and your students. Thanks.

Youth Advisor Sessions

Session 3: Wednesday, April 26, 2023

NOON - 1:15 p.m. PST (note new date and earlier time, by popular request)

We warmly invite MBLC youth advisors Grades 5-12 (with one adult ally per school) to gather to share experiences and ideas! In this youth-centered, friendly space, we will talk about questions like:

• What do we want school to be like and feel like?

• How can school be a space of belonging and discovery for all students?

• How can we raise our voices to make meaningful change?

Let’s connect and learn from each other! All youth advisor meetings will be held online.

What will we do in our meetings?

• Share our ideas and hopes about school and school change

• Meet students from other schools in a warm and welcoming equitable space

• Build our equity lens and leadership skills

• Brainstorm about changes we hope to see—and how to spark change
  
  

• JANUARY 19: Prep for Winter Gathering “Role-Alike” youth advisor conversation at the Winter Community Gathering Tuesday January 24, 3:30-5:30 pm.
  
  

• APRIL 26: Prep for Youth Advisor Panel at the Spring Gathering Tuesday May 4, in person, 10 am - 3 pm at Highline College, Desmoines, WA.

Who should sign up?

• 2-3 youth advisors Grades 5-12 from your MBLC member school who will be giving your MBLC team feedback and guidance from a student perspective

• one adult ally who will accompany your youth advisors in the sessions and support their work with your MBLC team over the rest of the school year.

We strongly encourage inviting 2+ youth advisors to maximize youth comfort in the cross-school space; please avoid inviting just one youth advisor, for this reason.

Session Dates:

• Fall: Mon, October 24, 3:45-5 pm (past event)
  
  

• Winter: Thurs, January 19, NOON-1:15 pm
  
  

• Spring: Wednesday, April 26, NOON-1:15 pm
  (new date and earlier time, by popular request)

→ REGISTER HERE

Office Hours with a Great Schools Partnership (GSP) 

Thursday, March 30, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Log in for personalized support for with one of the Great Schools Partnership coaches (Kate Gardoqui, Clyde Cole, or Don Weafer)

Join our open Zoom meeting during any of the dates and times below.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://greatschoolspartnership.zoom.us/j/88249614036?pwd=QWo1dWhEdGMwaVB2T09DOVFmMm0rdz09

Meeting ID: 882 4961 4036

Passcode: 958206

Session Dates:  

• September: Weds 28, 3-4:30 pm

• October: Tues 11, 3-4:30 pm

• November: Mon 7, 3-4:30 pm

• December: Thurs 1, 3-4:30 pm

• January: Thurs 12, 3-4:30 pm

• February: Thurs 16, 3-4:30 pm

• March: Thurs 30, 3-4:30 pm

• April: Mon 24, 3-4:30 pm

• May: Thurs 18, 3-4:30 pm

• June: Thurs 1, 3-4:30 pm

Webinar 10: CRSE-MBL Assessments

Thursday, March 2, 2023

3:45 p.m - 4:45 p.m PST

In this webinar, we will focus on the features of culturally responsive-sustaining, mastery-based units and assessments. Using sample assessments from teachers in schools using CRSE-MBL approaches, we will explore how teachers can build learning experiences and performance tasks that allow students to show what they know through meaningful challenges and projects.

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda 

• Watch the Recording

School Leaders Community of Practice

Monday, February 13, 2023

9:30 a.m - 11:00 a.m PST

→ REGISTER HERE (If you registered at the beginning of the year for this series, you do not need to register again.)

View the agenda

This quarterly meeting is where school leaders who are directing the MBL work at the school level will share successes, troubleshoot problems, and exchange resources. Guided by our dedication to educational equity, this Community of Practice will be a key part of our support system as we take this journey together. All meetings will be held virtually.

What will we do in our meetings?

• Share programs, documents, or policies and give feedback

• Discuss dilemmas/problems of practice

• Analyze student work generated in different schools

• Read or view and discuss resources together

Who should sign up?

• Principals in MBLC schools

• An additional person who is also taking a leadership role in your school’s MBLC group is welcome to join

Session Dates:

MBLC members who sign up for the Community of Practice will be asked to commit to all 4 meeting dates.

1. Weds, October 12, 9:30-11 am (new date)

2. Tues, December 6, 9:30-11 am

3. Mon, Feb 13, 9:30-11 am

4. Tues, April 25, 9:30-11 am 

Winter Community Gathering [online]

Tuesday, January 24, 2023  |  3:30 - 5:30 pm PST * 

This event is one of the 3 times each school year when all the MBLC member school teams gather to share and learn together. 

Who should attend?

Please register your whole MBLC team if you can—or a minimum of 2 MBLC team members who can share back to your full school team later. If your team has youth advisors, please invite 2-3 youth advisors, also. Thanks.

Featuring: 

• Speed round warmup conversations

• “Role alike” conversations

• Mini-electives on high-interest topics

• Team huddle time
  
  

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda

• Slides

• Mini Electives Resources and Zoom Recordings

1. Mastery-based Crediting
   What is mastery-based crediting (MBC)? What are the guidelines? How are member schools using MBC? - with Alissa Muller from SBE, Sui-lan Ho’okano from Enumclaw HS, & Robin Pratt from Auburn HS & Clyde facilitating

   • Watch the Recording
     
     

2. Top Ten Resources from Competency Collaborative
   What’s there? How could we use these resources? - with Joy

   • Competency Collaborative's Greatest Hits: Top 10 resources
     
     

3. MBLC School Journey: Steps to Implementation
   The most frequently-asked question from MBLC schools is, “what are the steps to transitioning to CRSE-MBL practices? What should we do first?” This new MBLC resource provides some answers, with a focus on the ongoing work of building shared commitments among all school community members.

   • • MBLC School Journey - Steps to Implementation

     • Watch the Recording

• • 1. 1. 1. 1. • Removing Punishments and Rewards from Grading
                  Getting punishments and rewards out of grading, while supporting students to develop effective work habits - with Don 

                  1. • Text and resource links

                     • Watch the Recording

* New after-school time: We're moving this gathering to after-school, to honor member schools' many commitments, and to maximize member schools' attendance at this event. 

Webinar 8: Youth Leadership & Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

3:45 p.m - 4:45 p.m PST

With Aneth Naranjo & Matt Gonzales from New York University Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools

What does CRSE look like in the daily life of a school? How can we get to know the young people we are seeking to be responsive to and sustaining of? How can youth input give power and authenticity to our work on MBL and CRSE? How can community and families best be invited into the ongoing conversation?

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda

• Watch the Recording

Mapping Your Partnership Ecosystem

Thursday, December 8, 2022

3:00 p.m - 5:30 p.m PST

In this interactive session, participants will learn strategies to create a map of the relationships within their ecosystem and discuss strategies to strengthen relationships. This workshop will take place virtually over Zoom. 

Resources shared during the session:

• Training Recording

• Resource Library

• Mapping Activity

• Partnership Type Tool, and Self-Reflection Worksheet

• Jamboard with your ideas about how to build and strengthen relationships

Prior Recorded Overview Sessions:

• School-Community Partnership 101

• School-Community Partnership 201

Culturally Responsive-Sustaining MBL: Systems for Supporting Students

Thursday, November 3, 2022

3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m PST

In this webinar, participants will learn about how formative assessments can be used to identify student needs for support or greater challenge. We will examine the systems that teachers and schools can put in place in order to respond quickly to student needs.

→WATCH THE RECORDING

Materials/Resources

• • Participant Agenda

Outcomes:

• Explore how formative assessments function in a mastery-based classroom

• Explore how formative assessments can be used in an asset-based context.

• Examine systems used both within schools and classrooms to get support to students as soon as they demonstrate need.

Youth Advisor Sessions

Monday, October 24, 2022

3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PST

We warmly invite MBLC youth advisors Grades 5-12 (with one adult ally per school) to gather to share experiences and ideas! In this youth-centered, friendly space, we will talk about questions like:

• What do we want school to be like and feel like?

• How can school be a space of belonging and discovery for all students?

• How can we raise our voices to make meaningful change?

Let’s connect and learn from each other! All youth advisor meetings will be held online.

What will we do in our meetings?

• Share our ideas and hopes about school and school change

• Meet students from other schools in a warm and welcoming equitable space

• Build our equity lens and leadership skills

• Brainstorm about changes we hope to see—and how to spark change

Who should sign up?

• 2-3 youth advisors Grades 5-12 from your MBLC member school who will be giving your MBLC team feedback and guidance from a student perspective 

• one adult ally who will accompany your youth advisors in the sessions and support their work with your MBLC team over the rest of the school year.

We strongly encourage inviting 2+ youth advisors to maximize youth comfort in the cross-school space; please avoid inviting just one youth advisor, for this reason.

Session Dates:

• Fall: Mon, October 24, 3:45-5 pm

• Winter: Thurs, January 19, 3:45-5 pm

• Spring: Tues, April 25, 3:45-5 pm

Culturally Responsive-Sustaining MBL: Building on Learning Outcomes

Thursday, October 13, 2022

3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m PST

In this webinar, participants will learn about how to build on learning outcomes to design some important elements of mastery-based classrooms and schools, including common scoring criteria and cycles of lessons, practice, and feedback.

→ Watch the Recording

Materials/Resources

• • Participant Agenda

  • Padlet

Outcomes:

• Build a shared understanding of how teachers can collaborate to craft shared descriptions of mastery (common scoring criteria)

• Build a shared understanding of how our descriptions of mastery can drive cycles of lessons, practice, and feedback.

• Build a shared understanding of how our descriptions of mastery can shape feedback.

Please Note: Because October is full of MBLC events, there two options for how to watch this webinar:

• Option 1:  Register and watch the webinar live at 3:45 on October 13;

• Option 2: Register and watch the recorded webinar asynchronously, whenever is convenient for you and your team, and add a contribution to the webinar padlet. 

Exploring Structural Racism

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

3:00 p.m - 5:30 p.m PST

In this workshop, School's Out Washington will provide foundational knowledge about structural racism. Participants will identify connections between historical racial injustices and present-day realities for young people and communities of color.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Understand what structural racism is and how it contributes to inequitable outcomes based on race.

• Explore components of structural racism within the context of pandemics.

• Begin exploration of strategies to work towards racial equity.

→ Learn more and register HERE

Culturally Responsive-Sustaining MBL: First Steps in Shifting Practice

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m PST

In our fourth webinar, participants will learn about three practical shifts in practice that should be made early in the transition to a Mastery-Based approach. We will explore the research in teaching and learning that supports these shifts, and will examine examples from MBL schools to see how the shifts look in action.

Materials/Resources

• • Participant Agenda

  • Webinar Recording

Our first interactive training, School-Community Partnership 101, will take place on June 14th from 3:45-4:45 pm over Zoom. 

The session will be recorded for those unable to attend the live session. We strongly recommend that at least one member of your planning teams attend and encourage you to also invite others in your school community who may be interested, especially anyone in your school responsible for community and family partnerships or after-school programs. 

Resources

• Webinar Recording 

• Workshop Slide deck (PDF)

• Partnership Ecosystem Mapping Activity Worksheet

• School Partners Program Inventory

• Partnership Reflection Worksheet

• Partnership Type Identification Checklist for Collaboratives 

• Cultivating Belonging in Schools for Staff and Community Partners

• Tip Sheet: Planning for Equitable Meetings

• Sample Visioning Process for Partnerships

• Shared Decision-Making Planning Tool

We encourage you to join us for our upcoming, optional, Office Hours to ask questions or get feedback about your application of these practices and tools.

• Thursday, June 16, 1-2 pm, Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcucO2hqzIrHt24K9un_fykkFeV6p0kiNXc

• Tuesday, June 21, 3:45-4:45 pm, Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucemvrj4uHNyZc2SbMzKKBkA4FE-cX8qR

In-person Community Gathering

May 26, 2022 | 10:00 a.m -3:00 p.m.

Location: The Education Center at Point Defiance Zoo + Aquarium

COVID precautions: We understand that valued members of our community have health concerns and that we all have varying comfort levels with in-person gatherings at this time. Because of this, we strongly recommend masks (N95 or similar is most effective) be worn when inside during the community gathering on May 26th except during specific times when eating/drinking, to minimize risk and demonstrate care for others in our community. A rapid test the morning of the event would provide additional clarity and peace of mind if that’s a possibility for you. Thank you!

Materials/Resources

• • Participant Agenda

Principles & Practices of Mastery-Based Learning

Wednesday, May 5, 2022

Materials/Resources

• • Participant Agenda 

  • Slide deck

  • Professional Learning Resources

  • Recording