Bill Zima

For those just beginning to explore the concept of High Reliability Schools, this Portable Event Package is an excellent way to build your foundational knowledge. For those who are deepening and sustaining the work, this package is the ideal opportunity to revisit your mission, dive into new content, and get answers to your most pressing questions.

In this webinar, participants will learn about the systems and structures of personalized competency-based education that can support the development of learners’ self-efficacy, so they recognize they have the ability to shape lives better, giving them the power of hope.

Rely on Mindsets and Skill Sets for Learning to help you cultivate confident thinkers who have a strong sense of agency over their lives. Use this guide to enhance your classroom culture with targeted, student-centered learning.

Join our lineup of acclaimed experts to learn how your school can achieve the highest levels of effectiveness using the High Reliability Schools framework.

Do you want all of your learners to be inspired? Do you want them to believe they have the skills and knowledge to control their lives—whatever they choose? Competency-based education (CBE), focusing on clarity of outcomes, evidence of student learning, and feedback for improvement can help teachers, schools, and districts do just that.

Standards-based education is becoming more and more common across the country. The approach is typically implemented at the school level. When it is, the school leaders support the change and are deeply involved in adjusting practices, processes, and policies to support the work. But what about the individual teacher or small group of like-minded teachers who wish to implement a standards-based grading approach in their classrooms but still adhere to the school or district’s traditional requirements?

We cannot teach our students everything, so we must prepare them for anything. Being prepared requires one to have specific skill sets and mindsets of success. Teachers should intentionally plan to develop agency in all learners. The framework we will share has four requirements: Inquiry starter, clear learning targets, application of knowledge, and reflection. We will share the framework, how it works in a classroom, and how you can get started.

This book champions competency-based education, outlining its history and benefits. It explores structural components such as organizing systems, foundational changes, student outcomes, agency, and equity, and procedural components such as assessment, instruction, and teacher facilitation. By embracing these principles, educators can create dynamic, student-centered learning environments.

Dr. Robert Marzano has spent decades researching effective instructional practices, and his Marzano Mastery Approaches provide a structured way for schools to implement competency-based education successfully. In this webinar, you’ll learn the seven key domains that shape competency-based learning and unpack the critical decisions schools must make to ensure meaningful implementation. Whether you’re just beginning your journey or refining existing practices, this session will give you a clear framework to align grading, assessment, and instruction with mastery-based principles.

In this webinar, presented by Bill Zima, you'll be introduced to Marzano Mastery Approaches (MMA)—a flexible framework informed by decades of research by Dr. Robert J. Marzano and refined through the experience of practitioners in the field. The MMA framework is designed to help schools build systems that ensure all students learn while also developing agency, equity, and deep understanding. Whether you're just beginning your journey toward competency-based education (CBE) or looking to align your current efforts with research-informed systems thinking, this session will help you explore the seven domains that form the foundation of sustainable, high-impact implementation.