These protocols can be used by school teams working on designing elements of their MBLC systems:

• Scoring Criteria Design Protocol

• Scoring Criteria Design Guide

• WA MBLC  Template for Project-Based Units

• Summative assessment design guide and protocol 

• Collaborative Scoring Protocol

• Faculty Handbook: The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria (A Competency Collaborative Living Lab school)

• Folder of examples

• Maritime High School Cross-cutting Competencies

Web Resources:

• WA MBLC video archive

• Mastery-based Learning in Washington State

• Great Schools Partnership: Beliefs and Practices of Proficiency-Based Learning

• Great Schools Partnership: Grading and Reporting for Educational Equity

• Competency Collaborative: Five Shifts of Competency-Based Education

• Competency Collaborative: Implementation Framework

• Competency Works: What is Competency-Based Education?

• Rhode Island Champions: Sample scoring criteria

• The Competency Collaborative video library

• Champlain Valley Union: CVU Learns blog

• CompetencyWorks: Blog

Books:

• Colby – Competency-Based Education: A New Architecture for K-12 Schooling

• Feldman – Grading for Equity: What It Is, What It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms

• Hess, Colby, and Joseph – Deeper Competency-Based Learning: Making Equitable, Student-Centered, Sustainable Shifts

• Lenz – Transforming Schools: Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessments, and Common Core Standards

• Marzano et al. – A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education

• Stack & Vander Els – Breaking with Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work

Web Resources:

• OSPI Appendix of Culturally Responsive Practices

• WA MBLC video archive

• NYSED - Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework

• Great Schools Partnership Educational Equity Toolkit

• Competency Collaborative: Implementation Framework

• NYU/Steinhardt: Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education

• 5-minute film festival: Culturally Responsive Teaching – Edutopia

Books:

• Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings 

  • • (1997, 2009)  The Dream Keepers

    • (2021) Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking a Different Question

• Dr. Geneva Gay (2000)  Culturally Responsive Teaching

• Chris Haas Social Justice Talk: Strategies for Teaching Critical Awareness. 2020.

• Dr. Django Paris & Dr. H. Samy Alim (2012) Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World

• Delpit Lisa. Teaching When the World Is on Fire. New Press 2019.

• Dr. Gholdy Muhammad

  • • (2020) Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

    • (2023) Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning

• Zaretta Hammond (2015) Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

• Dr. James Banks (2002) An Introduction to Multicultural Education

• Dr. Chris Emdin 

  • • (2017) For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, and the Rest of Y’all, Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

    • (2012) Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success

• Cornelius Minor (2018) We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be

• Dr.  Bettina Love (2019)  We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Web Resources:

• PBLWorks-Sample Projects

• Expeditionary Learning- Models of Excellence

• Pacific Education Institute - FieldSTEM Resources

• WA MBLC  Template for Project-Based Units

• Elements of Effective Instruction

• Visit the the School's Out Washington (SOWA) Resource LIBRARY