“The Advanced Level is Mastery of the Basics”~Ray Mancini First proposed by Benjamin Bloom in 1968, mastery learning is an educational approach that suggests that students must achieve mastery of prerequisite knowledge and skills before learning more complex material. Unlike traditional methods, where the entire class is expected to learn simultaneously regardless of individual students’ ability, mastery learning suggests that all students possess the aptitude to learn. Still

"There is no learning without having to pose a question." ~ Richard Feynman Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1965 In the 21st-Century classroom, teachers should strive to produce independent learners who take responsibility for their education. Unlike education of the past in which students were required to memorize a relatively static body of established “facts,” today’s education systems should prepare students for an incredibly fluid world. What we believe and know to be true toda