This School is Devoted to Mastery Learning

Not quite like ours because we have mastery learning in our core programs but we also must comply with the demands of MAPs tests in reading and math.  In this school teachers don't give typical grades;  A, B, C, etc. and don't believe in standardized testing.  Wonder how such a school would go over here in Milwaukee...don't think so, but what a great concept! 
[This school is in Massachusetts.]

Thinking Outside the Box:  Fall River's New Mastery School for Independent Learning Focuses on each child.  Lauren Daley.  4.4.14.  South Coast Today
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140404/EDU/404040302

You Can Teach Imagination

Resilience and imagination are connected.  The author, Kevin Washburn,  uses visualization to describe the underpinnings of resilience.  Picture a tripod with its 3-fold support:  One leg is imagination and the other two are reflection and attention.  The author walks us through four strategies that trains the imagination.  Excellent and sometimes surprising. 

Teaching resilience:  Imagination.  Kevin Washburn. 1.15.14 SmartBlog on Education
http://smartblogs.com/education/2014/01/15/teaching-resilience-imagination/?utm_source=brief