Mastery Based Learning News Today

QUINCY — A program that focuses on using a student’s interests to help them connect with school is having some success at Quincy Innovation Academy. How the “Big Picture Learning” program will work next year is still to be determined, since funding for some parts of the program come from a state grant that’s expiring.

RITZVILLE – Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools, a joint school district consisting of both the Ritzville and Lind school districts, is doing well, with a shift in focus in recent years for the cooperative’s academics, according to Lind-Ritzville Superintendent Don Vanderholm. “We are doing very well,” he said.

Conceptualized by the students in the Native Education and painting programs at Auburn High School in May 2023, the “We Are Alive and Strong” mural is about the experience of being a contemporary Native American student in a multicultural school and how we maintain our connection to nature.

Falmouth Public Schools will delay the start of its mastery-based learning pilot, Superintendent Lori S. Duerr wrote in an email. It was originally scheduled to begin this fall.

This coming fall, the Falmouth schools will begin piloting a new learning and grading system for kindergarten through 4th grade. The new system is causing some concern among parents, who

In their own words, the four candidates seeking two open seats on the Palo Alto Board of Education share what innovations theyd like to see come out of the school district.