How will the new reforms of the Common Core, edupreneurs, and education technology affect public education for new teachers? What have been the challenges for our education system, and how will these new dynamics alleviate, or add to, those challenges? This panel will engage in a...
Despite CCSS’s complex content and skills, we often use grading practices that combine achievement, effort, participation, behavior, and attendance into a single letter, allowing so much variability and subjectivity that a student’s grade becomes difficult to understand (What...
Despite CCSS’s complex content and skills, we often use grading practices that combine achievement, effort, participation, behavior, and attendance into a single letter, allowing so much variability and subjectivity that a student’s grade becomes difficult to understand (What...
High-quality and humane school strategies are often thwarted by our grading practices. These practices—including combining achievement and non-achievement into a single letter, and using grading to motivate and punish—create such inaccuracy and variability that grades become...
Attendees will participate in activities that highlight the urgency and efficacy of improving grading systems in order to successfully implement Common Core Standards, and learn how an inquiry-based PD model embedded in teachers’ classroom experiences can deeply impact daily...