

The CR-MBE Research Project seeks to understand how culturally responsive mastery-based practices influence historically marginalized students’ learning capacities, school engagement, and academic outcomes. Learning capacities refer to mindsets, learning skills, and academic behavior. School engagement refers to academic behavior, attendance and discipline. Academic outcomes refers to course grades, college and career readiness, and other measures of performance. CR-MBE blends two approaches to educating children: (1) centering students’ cultures and experiences to facilitate teaching and learning and (2) teaching and learning that occurs until students demonstrate proficiency.
The CR-MBE Research project is framed by concepts from Culturally Responsive Education and Teaching, Mastery-based/Competency-based Education, Critical Race Theory, DisCrit, Community Cultural Wealth Theory, and Opportunity Gap.