Webinars

Foster Responsive, Youth-centered School Culture: 

Designing or Revising Culturally Responsive-sustaining Units and Projects.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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

This meeting will focus on a set of classroom practices and routines that teachers can use to create classroom environments that encourage students to design critical questions, persist when problems are challenging, and take risks as thinkers.

In our breakout rooms, we will explore a variety of responsive, youth-centered classroom practices that support student growth mindset and student efficacy, including the Question Formulation Technique and strategies from Building Thinking Classrooms.

Session Outcomes:

• Discuss the importance of students taking risks in CRS MBL and the role of a growth mindset to encourage risk-taking

• Identify responsive, youth-centered classroom practices to support student growth mindset

• Explore a specific instructional strategy to promote student efficacy

Materials/Resources

• Meeting #5 Agenda

• Slides

• Watch the Recording

The MBLC Meeting Series

The MBLC Meetings are a series of online events that meet throughout the year. In these meetings we will share webinar presentations on essential components of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Mastery-Based Learning. Each webinar will be followed by breakout room sessions during which MBLC educators will be able to connect with others from across the collaborative to discuss the ideas shared in the webinar, and to share dilemmas, questions, successes and resources. View the Participant Rolling Agenda.

Meeting Series Outcomes:

• Build understanding of how to use a combination of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining and Mastery-Based approaches to achieve greater educational equity in schools and districts

• Build understanding of how to integrate youth voice and leadership into school change efforts

• Increase awareness of resources, tools, and approaches being used successfully across the Collaborative

All Meeting Series Dates:

1. September 17, 2024

2. November 12, 2024

3. January 14, 2025

4. February 4, 2025

5. March 18, 2025

6. June 3, 2025

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

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

The MBLC Meetings are a series of online events that meet throughout the year. In these meetings we will share webinar presentations on essential components of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Mastery-Based Learning. Each webinar will be followed by breakout room sessions during which MBLC educators will be able to connect with others from across the collaborative to discuss the ideas shared in the webinar, and to share dilemmas, questions, successes and resources. 

This month's topic: Foster responsive, youth-centered school culture: Designing or revising culturally responsive-sustaining units and projects.

This Month's Outcomes: 

• Clarify the relationship between CRSE, rigor, and MBL - they are not separate. CRSE includes rigor and is aligned to standards/prioritized learning outcomes.

• Deepen understanding of CRSE by providing criteria for what makes a task/assessment culturally responsive

• Provide exemplars for high-quality CRSE assessment/tasks; deepen understanding of the difference between a task that lacks cultural responsiveness and how the task could be re-conceived to include it

Materials/Resources

• Participant Rolling Agenda

• Slides

• Watch the Recording!

Meeting Series Outcomes:

• Build understanding of how to use a combination of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining and Mastery-Based approaches to achieve greater educational equity in schools and districts

• Build understanding of how to integrate youth voice and leadership into school change efforts

• Increase awareness of resources, tools, and approaches being used successfully across the Collaborative

All Meeting Series Dates:

1. September 17, 2024

2. November 12, 2024

3. January 14, 2025

4. February 4, 2025

5. March 18, 2025

6. June 3, 2025

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

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

What schoolwide systems support the implementation of our MBLC goals?  During the webinar portion of the meeting, we will explore the critical role effective systems play in whole-school change efforts and will hear about some examples of systems explicitly designed to support schoolwide enactment of culturally responsive and sustaining mastery-based learning practices.

Meeting Outcomes:

• Identify specific factors that make a system effective at supporting school-wide implementation of MBL-CRSE

• Gain awareness of specific systems that can support schoolwide MBL-CRSE implementation

• Explore some tools that can help you establish systems at your school

Essential Questions:

• What do we mean by a system? How is it different than any initiative?

• What makes a system effective? How can systems be set-up to effectively support schoolwide implementation of CRSE-MBL?

• What systems can be used to support schoolwide implementation of CRSE-MBL?l

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda

• Slides

• Watch the Recording

All Meeting Series Dates:

• September 17, 2024

• November 12, 2024

• January 14, 2025

• February 4, 2025

• March 18, 2025

• June 3, 2025

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

The MBLC Meetings are a series of online events that meet throughout the year. In these meetings we will share webinar presentations on essential components of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Mastery-Based Learning. Each webinar will be followed by breakout room sessions during which MBLC educators will be able to connect with others from across the collaborative to discuss the ideas shared in the webinar, and to share dilemmas, questions, successes and resources. 

This month we'll address questions like, what are practical steps we can take to uplift student voices in our school? How can the practices of mastery-based learning help us uplift student voices? How can we engage with students/and/or community members when designing/revising school systems? In this webinar we will, explore strategies used by culturally responsive-sustaining school systems for uplifting student voice, deepen understanding of the Spectrum of Student Voice, and examine practical tools from various grade levels and discuss how they might be applied in MBLC schools.

Meeting Series Outcomes:

• Build understanding of how to use a combination of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining and Mastery-Based approaches to achieve greater educational equity in schools and districts

• Build understanding of how to integrate youth voice and leadership into school change efforts

• Increase awareness of resources, tools, and approaches being used successfully across the Collaborative

Materials/Resources

• Participant Rolling Agenda

• Slides

• There are three video recordings from our meeting:

  1. 1. • The main webinar recording, which includes Sarah Goodman and her students presenting about the Hunter’s Point Community Middle School Student Leadership Team

        • Breakout Room 1 recording: Mark Keating and Alyssa Maslen presenting about the Elma Elementary School Badge Books. 

        • Breakout room 2 recording: discussion with Sarah Goodman and her students. Watch that recording here.

All Meeting Series Dates:

• September 17, 2024

• November 12, 2024

• January 14, 2025

• February 4, 2025

• March 18, 2025

• June 3, 2025

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

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

The MBLC Meetings are a series of online events that meet throughout the year. In these meetings we will share webinar presentations on essential components of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Mastery-Based Learning. Each webinar will be followed by breakout room sessions during which MBLC educators will be able to connect with others from across the collaborative to discuss the ideas shared in the webinar, and to share dilemmas, questions, successes and resources.

Prompt for today's presentation:  What works to build shared commitment to rigorous, equitable, anti-racist, responsive, and welcoming learning environments?

Outcomes:

• Build understanding of how to use a combination of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining and Mastery-Based approaches to achieve greater educational equity in schools and districts

• Build understanding of how to integrate youth voice and leadership into school change efforts

• Increase awareness of resources, tools, and approaches being used successfully across the Collaborative

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda

• Slides

All Meeting Series Dates:

• September 17, 2024

• November 12, 2024

• January 14, 2025

• February 4, 2025

• March 18, 2025

• June 3, 2025

Webinar 18: The Power of Co-Teaching

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

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

In this webinar, we will share the story of how Catalyst Public Schools has utilized the co-teaching model to support each student attending their school. We will hear about special education and general education collaboration in a culturally responsive learning environment at both the classroom level and at a more macro systems level. 

Outcomes:

• Explore how co-teaching models can be used to support diverse learner needs

• Gain insight into systems-level decision-making to support co-teaching models 

• Reflect on strategies to apply to personal contexts to meet the needs of all learners

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda 

• Slides

•  Watch the Recording 

Webinar 17: Crafting & Utilizing School-Wide Outcomes

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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

 Watch the Recording  

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  

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  

Webinar 15: Using CRS MBL to Support Inclusive Instruction for Every Student

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

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

In this webinar, we will share the story of how Alysia Backman and Ali Gingras developed inclusive, culturally responsive, and mastery-based approaches to support instruction for every student at 9-12 public high school in Vermont. 

Outcomes:

• Explore how schools can use enhanced learning progressions and success criteria to support inclusive culturally responsive instruction for every student.

• Build understanding of how to center students receiving specialized instruction within a mastery-based learning system.

• Explore classroom examples of implementation across content areas.

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda 

• Webinar Slide Deck (includes links to lots of resources!)

• Watch the Recording  

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  

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!

Webinar 11: The Power of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Learning Experiences.

Thursday, April 27, 2023

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

This webinar will feature Sui-lan Ho’okano, Cultural Program Director at Enumclaw High School, who will share the power of interdisciplinary, immersion learning for students at Enumclaw High School. We'll see how students experience and are impacted by indigenous ways of being and knowing and use those experiences to develop deep and lasting learning. 

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda

• Watch the Recording

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

Webinar 9: Virtual Visit with a Longtime MBL School

Monday, February 6, 2023

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

With teachers/MBL architects Xenia Thomopoulos & Greg Zimdahl from The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria in Queens, NY, a Competency Collaborative Living Lab school.

Watch the Recording!

Materials/Resources

• Participant Agenda 

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

How Students Become Expert Learners: Using Research on Learning to Support Our Work, with Chris Sturgis

Monday, December 12, 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:

• Build shared understanding of research on learning that we can apply to maximize learning.

• Make connections between research on learning and culturally responsive-sustaining education

• Explore the underlying research that informs mastery-based learning. 

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.

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. 

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

Mastery-Based Learning & the Student Experience

Wednesday, June 8 | 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Materials/Resources

• • Participant Agenda

  • Slide deck

  • Webinar Recording

Mastery-Based Learning & Culturally-Responsive-Sustaining Education

Wednesday, May 18 | 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Materials/Resources

• • Participant Agenda

  • Slide deck

  • Webinar Recording

Principles & Practices of Mastery-Based Learning

Wednesday, May 5, 2022

Materials/Resources

• • Participant Agenda 

  • Slide deck

  • Professional Learning Resources

  • Recording