More about Mastery

"We think most schools will offer two ways to get assessments: letter grades (A-F) or through the mastery system. The students would earn evidence that they could submit eventually to get mastery credits."

Mastery has a new tool: a digital portfolio.

"Students are encouraged to put anything that they have produced in a school into an evidence database: essays, comments they have received from other students and feedback from teachers, videos that they have produced... The students then curate that evidence and prepare portfolios to submit for credits." Scott Looney, head of a private school in Cleveland, Ohio

The design of the mastery project

Phase I: working with the schools in the consortium

Phase II: feedback from colleges

Phase III: open the MTC to other schools.

Let's prepare with hands-on work

"You are assigned to a knowledgeable, mature person who has the skills that you want to learn. through applied work under the supervision of that master, the apprentice gets stronger. As part of the journey, the apprentice helps to teach the younger apprentices."

See Dennis Littky's book The Big Picture