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We All Sit at One Table: How Small School Size Can Build Teacher Capacity

10 Mar 2011
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Determining Effect of Peer Health Exchange Model on Teen Health Behavior Outcomes

17 May 2013
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The Future of Teaching and Learning in California

11 Mar 2014
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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...
New Leaders for New Schools

Improving Grading Practices to Accelerate Transition to the Common Core and Transform Teaching

15 May 2014
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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...
New Leaders for New Schools

Improving Grading Practices to Accelerate Transition to the Common Core and Transform Teaching

16 Sep 2014
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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...

San Francisco Coalition of Equitable Small Schools Annual Conference: “But Is It Going to Be On the Test?” How Grading Practices Constrain Teaching and Inhibit Learning, and What We Can Do About It

08 Nov 2014
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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...

National Quality Education Conference: The Road Untraveled (and Feared): Improving Grading Practices to Deepen Common Core Implementation and Transform Teaching

16 Nov 2014
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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...

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