Full Name
Mike Peller
Job Title
Assistant Head of School for Teaching and Learning
Organization/Company
The White Mountain School
Speaker Bio
Mike Peller joined White Mountain School in July 2018 as the Assistant Head of Teaching and Learning. He serves as the chief academic leader of the school. In particular, given the school’s articulation of and commitment to its Essential Skills and Habits, he has developed systems and strategies to transition to a competency-based learning environment, so as to develop learner experiences and assessment tied to these skills and habits. Mike draws from his recent work experience at Nueva, where he served as the Assistant Head of Upper School, as well as the site director for Global Online Academy and the Mastery Transcript Consortium. His focus while at Nueva was on building and refining a standards-based grading system, which evolved into a competency-based learning system. He has led numerous workshops on this and has presented at a number of national conferences including: NAIS, O.E.S.I.S., and Nueva’s Innovative Learning Conference. Relevant conferences include:
Leading Across Schools: Co-creating a Competency Roadmap, NAIS, February 2020
Leading Change in the Mastery Revolution, NAIS, February 2019
What is a B+, Anyways?, NAIS, March 2018
Changing to CBE: A Bottom-Up Approach, O.E.S.I.S., March 2019
A Transition to Competency Assessment, O.E.S.I.S., October 2018
An Evolution of Interdisciplinary Competency-Based Assessment, O.E.S.I.S., April 2018
Transforming your Math Program with Standards, Innovative Learning Conference, October 2017
Prior to Nueva, Mike worked as the Math Department Chair, director of Project Outreach, and the Assistant Director of the Senior Honor thesis at Holderness School in New Hampshire. He was also one of the founding faculty of Sonoma Academy, where he was a science and math teacher, ninth grade dean, and a member of the admissions committee. Mike earned his BA in environmental engineering at Harvard University and his MA in Independent School Leadership at Columbia University. Mike, being a child of two boarding school teachers, grew up on the campus of Northfield Mount Hermon: he knows boarding schools well.
Leading Across Schools: Co-creating a Competency Roadmap, NAIS, February 2020
Leading Change in the Mastery Revolution, NAIS, February 2019
What is a B+, Anyways?, NAIS, March 2018
Changing to CBE: A Bottom-Up Approach, O.E.S.I.S., March 2019
A Transition to Competency Assessment, O.E.S.I.S., October 2018
An Evolution of Interdisciplinary Competency-Based Assessment, O.E.S.I.S., April 2018
Transforming your Math Program with Standards, Innovative Learning Conference, October 2017
Prior to Nueva, Mike worked as the Math Department Chair, director of Project Outreach, and the Assistant Director of the Senior Honor thesis at Holderness School in New Hampshire. He was also one of the founding faculty of Sonoma Academy, where he was a science and math teacher, ninth grade dean, and a member of the admissions committee. Mike earned his BA in environmental engineering at Harvard University and his MA in Independent School Leadership at Columbia University. Mike, being a child of two boarding school teachers, grew up on the campus of Northfield Mount Hermon: he knows boarding schools well.
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