Informed by the ideas of 41 educators all over the world who contributed to the fourth edition of How to Grade for Learning, author Ken O'Connor focuses on the four most critical challenges when implementing Standards-Based Grading and Learning in schools and districts and in the classroom.
"I am deeply troubled that many state laws continue to require consideration of change in annual accountability test score as an indicator of student growth for teacher evaluation. This is a patently indefensible policy for a variety of reasons..." Read the full blog from Rick Stiggins, author of Defensible Teacher Evaluation.
In this letter from The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning, the authors provides insight on the current state of education.
Assessment Cookie 7 (a piece of information that sticks with you) from The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning explores assessment tasks that work for distance learning.
In this excerpt from The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning, the authors provide tools for assessing a students current level of understanding.
Please enjoy this complimentary excerpt on The Purpose of this Playbook. You’ll discover an overview of the Playbook modules and why this work is essential to your PLC+s.
In this webinar series, we will move beyond just learning intentions and take a deep-dive into how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality Success Criteria.
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey, two of the authors of The Success Criteria Playbook, discuss how to use success criteria in your classroom and understand how success criteria advances your students’ learning, on the 3Ps in a Pod podcast.
Whether face-to-face, hybrid, or at a distance, this webinar will introduce how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria, based on The Success Criteria Playbook.
Co-authors of The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey walk through 6 tools for assessing learning from a distance to shine a light on understanding in ways that some of our more traditional tools do not.
Co-author of The Success Criteria Playbook John Almarode shares how expanding our perspective on what success criteria are and how we create and communicate them in our classrooms will have a noticeable effect on how our learners engage in the learning.
Competency-based grading is one doable step toward deepening a focus on learning.