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PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING

PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING. Enacting New Grading Practices. PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING. Essential Question:. What are the common processes, concepts, and vocabulary surrounding grading practices for improved student achievement in your school or district? . PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING.

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PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING

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  1. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Enacting New Grading Practices

  2. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Essential Question: What are the common processes, concepts, and vocabulary surrounding grading practices for improved student achievement in your school or district?

  3. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Best practices don't pay off until they have been implemented and fine-tuned in short-term, closely studied cycles. Such empirical efforts need to become the norm, the stuff of a new, more professional culture of experimentation in teaching. Mike Schmoker, Results Now

  4. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Arenas of Change • Organization • Structures • PD • Protocols • Trust • The Fixes • Instruction matters. Culture Conditions Change grading practices for the purpose of improving student achievement. Goal Competencies • Gradebook From Change Leadership – Wagner, Kegan

  5. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Culture Competencies Conventions Change grading practices for the purpose of improving student achievement. Culture Competencies Conventions

  6. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Focus Questions • Who are the players?

  7. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Who are the players? Trailblazer Need a clear and compelling vision and direction Need autonomy Have a desire for novelty Love adventure and risk Need opportunities to meet and read about other trailblazers Need to be recognized, honored, praised

  8. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Who are the players? Pioneer Willing to take risks Need assurance that the benefits justify the effort Adventurous Need support of colleagues Need map and guides

  9. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Who are the players? Settlers Need to know expectations Need to know where they are going Bold but need to be encouraged Need strong, constant, reassuring leadership Need support and protection Require learning and practice

  10. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Who are the players? Stay-at-home Not opposed to change if others choose it Won’t resist but are actively recruited by saboteurs

  11. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Who are the players? Saboteurs Actively committed to stopping change Disruptive Feel appreciated when isolated

  12. PEARSONALWAYS LEARNING Commitments What will you do by January 1st in your team, department, school to build common processes, concepts, and vocabulary surrounding examination and changing of grading practices?

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