“Success doesn’t come by pie-in-the-sky thinking. It’s the result of consciously doing something EACH DAY that will add to your overall excellence.”~ Nick Saban #continuousimprovement
For every new increment of performance that you demand from classroom teachers, you have an equal obligation to provide the time, the tools, and the training necessary to meet those new expectations: https://t.co/QStUPedaOs #edtech#edleadership@plugusin
By asking students to track their progress over time, teachers are encouraging them to see assessments not as isolated tests that can permanently influence their overall grade but as connected measurements of their learning and progress over time. #studentengagement
Grades will only be as meaningful/meaningless as we allow them to be; their existence isn't the issue. The issue is how they're defined & determined. "Meaningless" when disassociated from the most/more recent versions of quality that students produce or demonstrate. #atAssess
When forgiveness is part of school culture: 1). Adults admit mistakes and seek forgiveness; 2). Adults reward students for admitting mistakes and learning from them. 3). Systems that punish learning mistakes are abolished.
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In a classroom organized around learning goals, a score on a particular scale for a learning goal represents the student’s status at one point in time only. At a later point in time, if the student demonstrates enhanced competence, his score changes to represent his new status.
The PLC movement as crafted by Rick and Becky DuFour and Bob Eaker is probably the most influential movement with regards to actually changing practices in schools I have ever seen.
Before students can recognize errors, they must understand them. Teachers need to spend an adequate amount of time providing the class with examples of types of fallacies (like below) and eliciting examples from students. #NASOT
Differences between instruction in a traditional system and a competency-based system across whole-class instruction, small-group instruction, individual instruction, and peer-to-peer instruction. #NASOT