This page provides information about MSAD15. 

from Making Mastery Work:

MSAD 15's Gray-New Gloucester High School in Gray, ME.

Context of Competency Education: The only grantee doing competency education throughout an entire school system, the district has been implementing competency education for over four years at the elementary and middle school levels. It is now being piloted at the high school level.

Focus of Grant Project: Vertical expansion of competency education at the middle school level (adding grade 8), creation of additional competency education curriculum and assessment materials, and planning for the Sept. 2012 introduction of competency education into the high school.


What We Are Learning from MSAD 15

Curriculum and Instruction

• MSAD 15 undertook a substantial project related to the Common Core. They set out to develop a set of district-wide standards and performance assessments, as well as a teacher- designed assessment system, all aligned to the Common Core
• Putting the Common Core Standards at the center of their curriculum and assessment development work has taken them to the cutting edges of contemporary education and shows the potential the Common Core has to invigorate competency education
• MSDA15 has been codifying district best practices and policies in order to create a unified, coherent system. All members of the school community 
are engaged in this effort, not just central office administrators and their consultants. You can read more about this on page 55 of Making Mastery Work.