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SPRING COMMUNITY GATHERING FOR ALL MBLC MEMBER TEAMS
TUESDAY, MAY 2. 10 am-3:30 pm at Highline College, Des Moines
All member schools: We hope to see your whole MBLC team. Puget Sound-area schools are invited to bring 2-3 youth advisors for a student panel.
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Volume 1, Issue 5 | April/May 2023
Greetings, MBLC Community:
We hope you had a sweet and restful April break. We look forward to seeing member school teams in late April and early May for professional learning sessions—including some in-person events! We are excited about visiting many of you at your schools in May, also. See you soon at a MBLC event.
With our appreciations and best wishes—
Your dedicated MBLC Support Team and fans,
Professional Learning Coaches: Clyde, Don, Chris, Joy, Kate, and Katie
WA SBE: Alissa, Seema, and Stephanie
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You can register and get more info at the MBLC Site: bit.ly/MBLCsite or check out our Google Calendar of Events: bit.ly/MBLC_Eventcalendar.
For events open to Friends of MBLC, look for this symbol: 💟
Online events
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Tues, April 25 | 9:30-11 am | Leaders Community of Practice, Session 4
- School leaders of MBLC work: Join this space to share out and connect with others across the MBLC community. In this last session of the year, the focus will be on planning for next school year. Do not miss!
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Wed, April 26 | Noon-1:15 pm | Youth Advisors & Adult Allies Session
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We warmly invite MBLC youth advisors Grades 5-12 (with one adult ally per school) to gather in this youth-centered, friendly online space. We will use some time to prep for the upcoming Youth Advisor Panel at the Spring Gathering Tuesday May 2, in person at Highline College, Des Moines (optional but encouraged)
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Thurs, April 27 | 3:45-4:45 pm | Webinar 11 | The Power of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Learning Experiences, featuring Sui-lan Ho’okano, Cultural Program Director at MBLC Member School Enumclaw HS 💟
- All are welcome to this online event! Member schools, please send 1+ team members to the live session; others can watch the webinar recording asynchronously. Thanks!
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Mon, May 8 | 3:30-5 pm | PLC, Session 5
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Tues, May 16 | 3:45-4:45 pm | Webinar 12 | Virtual School Visit, featuring Emily Rinema & Stan Williams from Champlain Valley Union HS, a longtime mastery-based school in Vermont 💟
- All are welcome to this online event! Member schools, please send 1+ team members to the live session; others can watch the webinar recording asynchronously. Thanks!
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April 24 and May 15, 17, 18 | 3-4:30 pm | Coaching Office Hours with NLC & GSP
- 1:1 conversations about CRSE/MBL principles and practices, school change process with MBLC professional learning providers Clyde, Don, Joy, or Kate. For MBLC member school teams (optional but encouraged)
In person events
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Spring Community Gathering | Tues May 2 | 10 am-3:15 pm | Highline College, Des Moines
- Featuring a youth advisor panel, high-interest electives, school team planning time, and school-to-school shares. Please send 3-4 MBLC team members—let us know if you’d like to bring more. Puget Sound-area schools: We invite you to bring students for panel. Please see registration form for more details. For MBLC member school teams and nearby youth advisors
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Visit to Avanti HS | Thurs May 4 | 11 am-3:15 pm | Olympia
- Come learn about interdisciplinary, hands-on learning at this MBLC member high school. For MBLC member school teams, 2 max per school (optional but encouraged) Waitlist only!
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MBLC Summer Institute | Mon/Tues Aug 7-8 | 10 am-3:15 pm | Green River College, Auburn
- Prep for September with workshops on various aspects of CRSE/MBL. MBLC member schools: Please save these dates for your whole team. Registration link coming soon.
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Aurora Institute Symposium | Sun-Tues October 15-17 | Palm Springs, CA
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Here’s what we’ve been up to lately! Find recordings and resources from past events at the MBLC Event Archive on the community site: bit.ly/MBLCsite.
PLC Session 4: Engaging Families/Stakeholders in MBLC Work - February 28 What are authentic and responsive ways to communicate and engage with families and other stakeholders about our MBLC innovations? We annotated this sample letter for families: bit.ly/MBLCintro and crowdsourced ideas for resources, events, and general advice on engagement—our ideas here: bit.ly/EngagementIdeas_PLC4.
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Webinar 10: Assessment in a Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Environment - March 2
What are the features of culturally responsive-sustaining, mastery-based assessment? What role does assessment play an ongoing cycle of learning and feedback? Don and Kate from Great Schools Partnership took us through many assessment design considerations, and examples from Chicago Public Schools.
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Here are resources and videos for your use. Enjoy, and let us know your wish list for next time!
We’re proud to share three more profiles of MBLC founding member schools. Read to learn more about each school’s background, instructional approach, implementation steps, and big questions they have as they evolve this important work in their schools.
Highline Big Picture
West Valley
Maritime HS
Here are two webinars and sets of resources from OSPI’s Graduation Equity series—the first features members of the MBLC community!
Mastery-based Learning: This webinar, focused on MBL, features our own MBLC Director Alissa Muller, PL provider/coach Joy Nolan, and Quincy Innovation Academy Principal Colleen Frerks. Click the image above or this link to watch this webinar (click the link if you would like to get clock hours for engaging with this webinar). Enjoy!
Related resources (please credit the source if you use):
Partnerships for Culturally Relevant Learning: Culturally relevant learning focuses on multiple aspects of student achievement and supports students to uphold their cultural identities and develop critical perspectives that challenge societal inequities. In this webinar, Dr. Martina Whelshula shares how culturally relevant learning works in the context of a multi-tiered system of support, social emotional health, and intergenerational historical trauma. Click the image above or this link to watch this incredible webinar (click the link if you would like to get clock hours for engaging with this webinar). Related resources (please credit the source if you use):
MBLC Event archive
Have you checked out the growing event archive on the MBLC Community Site? It’s a treasure trove of recordings and resources from past events.
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Dear Embee Elsie:
Our school has been diving into building systems for CRSE and MBL. We recently did a roadmapping activity with our coach. As we reflected and planned, we generated ideas about course adjustments we’d like to make to our work plan and budget for next year. Will we be able to use these planning adjustments in our work next year?
Signed—Course Adjustments
Dear Course Adjustments:
It’s great to hear you and your colleagues have been reflecting and planning—what a wonderful way to spend some spring meeting time together. Indeed, we hope you will use the fruits of this labor in your plan for next year. Keep your notes handy, and connect with your PL provider/coach about how you want to realize your course adjustments for next year. You will have a chance to make adjustments to your work plan and budget as we move ahead into the (ahem) actually warm part of this season.
Thanks for all you do to get it right for our young people! Very best—Embie
Reader, do you have a question for our advice columnist Embie Elsie (aka M-B-L-C)? Please reach her here!
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About us
The Mastery-based Learning Collaborative is a community of Washington State schools that are using youth-centered, mastery/competency-based, culturally responsive-sustaining practices and approaches. Our program is an initiative of Washington State Board of Education, in collaboration with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and Professional Educator Standards Board.
Contact
Mastery Based Learning Collaborative
State Board of Education
Olympia, Washington
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