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Communication will be key for both students and the community to help shift the grading mindset!

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Good foundations are essential for continued learning.

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Feedback with grades.

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Giving quality meaningful feedback.

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Students learn differently. Need to build a good foundation for them to grow on.

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Timely, effective feedback is important

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I fill like it’s going to be different, but I think in the long run, it’s going to be better.

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Sal Khan has issued a challenge to the education community.  We need to invert the pyramid so that the majority of our students grow up to be creative and innovative.  This is the only way for our society to keep pace with the transition into the Information Age where automation is causing traditional job skills to become obsolete.

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We need to look at how to assess student growth, not necessarily with a grade.

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Communication is so needed to have everyone together in this new mindset!

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We seem to all agree that communication is key to providing feedback and that grading should separately judge content knowledge and behavior.  Now, we are ready to tackle the "how do we transition to this grading?".  I also think the analogies used by Sal Kahn are powerful and would be great to use as examples as we seek community and parent buy-in to our changing mindset.

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Feedback, especially positive, is key!

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"Grading and reporting aren't essential to instruction." (Frisbie and Waltman 1992) As I've reflected on my own motivation and my students, I am surprised (and relieved) to see this is true and aligns with my instructional beliefs.

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Giving different types of feedback can allow growth with a focus

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I got the most from small group discussions. I feel like personal feedback (positive & negative) is something that sticks more than just a letter grade.

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Making feedback meaningful, individualized and timely.

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Stay open minded

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My biggest take away came from the group discussions. I was able to meet with a group of varying individuals and one person shared how he was told he wouldn't amount to anything and he is leading a very inspirational life! I don't want grades to be the reason a student feels they can't amount to anything. I want students to feel like they can achieve whatever they want in life!

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New perspective on grading!

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Grades are no longer relevant with mastery based assessments. Feedback and mastery is everything.

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rethinking why we grade and the importance on building a foundation

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Loved the house building analogy. What does the grade really mean? What are we grading?

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Failure is a moment of learning.

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We should teach to mastery rather than giving a grade based on what they can do and moving on.

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Rethinking what grades means

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We can't just keep pushing children forward without allowing them to master the foundation.

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We need to give meaningful feedback with individualize comments.

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Kids are individuals and learn in different ways and different paces... we have to meet them where they are and help move them forward

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All students don't learn a

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A great way to look at grading. This analogy can be used for everyone in the community.

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Grades without feedback is meaningless. We all need specific feedback to learn and grow.

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You have to build a solid foundation before you can build on to additional levels.

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My biggest take away is simple...We must first change the mindset of teachers before we can change the mindset of students, parents, and community.  Teachers must  focus on personalized/individualized learning in order to meet the needs of each student.

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Make sure we going all in with this.

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Feedback is ESSENTIAL for our students to know what they are succeeding at and what they are struggling with. Feedback will help them be able to see what they need to work on and give them suggestions as to what they can do to help themselves.

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I definitely have a different perspective now. I am ready to see the change.

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The foundation needs to be strong.

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The analogy from Kahn and how to grade and give feedback "meaningfully"

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Thurpose of grading

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Focusing on skills mastery will allow students to take control of their own learning, instead of internalizing a "grade" that promotes less effort.

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Focusing on skills mastery will allow students to take control of their own learning, instead of internalizing a "grade" that promotes less effort.

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Rethinking who we are grading for, is it for students/parents to reflect and improve, or is it for teachers so evaluate themselves and rethinki

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Everyone learns at his/her own pace.  Grading doesn't always reflect learning.

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Wow! What a powerful take away. I'll always remember that going forward.

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Our traditional way of grading is geared more towards a close-mindset, where CBE grading is geared towards an open-minded mind

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A lot of our motivation as students came from wanting to please our parents

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Receiving Feedback in written and verbal forms are the most popular. Taking time to decompress about feedback and having a way to to discuss is important to learning.

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I have a lot to learn.

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Grades are an accountability for students and help them know where they are.

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As Sal Kahn said, I always had the mindset that if I made a 95% then what about the 5% I didn't learn?

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I think the move away from our current grading system is something we MUST do- although the "how" and the new rules may not yet be clear to us. I am glad we're having this conversation.

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I think that his examples makes you really think about how we think about grading and moving on without making sure that students understand the topic

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You can't build a stable house on wet cement.

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I loved the analogy Kahn spoke of: Grading - like the belts you earn in karate. You move to the next level when you've reached mastery.

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Giving a grade is MEANINGLESS without specific and actionable feedback to assist a student to MASTER the content

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All kids do not learn at the same pace, therefore the standards we grade will be different for each child. Grading should be based on each child's growth rather than as a whole class on the same standards.

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We have been exploring this at SRHS for a while.  Looks possitive.