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American education is behind other countries, but not because of the teachers, students or parents.

Not playing the anti-teaching game - teaching the way that many teachers want to teach - not just relegating students to 1/3 of the class having A's, the other third having B's and the other third having C's and just looking at behavioral or other issues at what would determine that grade instead of actual learning.

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1. Look at all evidence over time, where is consistent level of performance.
2. On an X/Y grade book standards/assessments or assignments
3. Unique score for each standard assessed (within an assessment or assignment)

? How much can our "community" handle or tolerate?

What ratio of weight should be used?

Goal- Design PD (using these resources) that SELLS it to admin/teachers & design effective communication for rolling it out

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Take-Aways:
Standards-based grading involves measuring students' proficiency on well-defined course objectives

SBG emphasizes student learning and de-emphasizes homework, effort, etc.

Grades become more meaningful and better communicate student learning.

Questions/Concerns:

Is there a way to implement standards based grading using a traditional points based gradebook?

How do teachers use existing assessments in SBG?

Goal:  Identify teachers who might be interested in SBG and share articles.

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Homework and effort are separate categories.

Zeros and points off for late work are behavioral issues, not always a learning issue.

A student's last assessment on a skill should count, not previous failed attempts.

This requires a shift in grading views that will be difficult, but worthwhile, to overhaul.

What are my first steps? Second steps? How do I convince other teachers to follow suit?

Goal: Find one subject/concept/skill to use SBG and start

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Putting Standards-Based Grading Into Action

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Putting Standards-Based Grading Into Action

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Take Aways:
- Students receive feedback on areas they need to improve
- Grades are flexible and can adjust up and down as students master/wrestle with new skills
-Conversations with students and parents are focused on student learning
Questions/Concerns:
- How does a district successfully implement standards-based grading?

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Take- Aways

Zeros do not help students or show what they really do/do not know - they are often a consequence that students do not care about

Deducting for late work addresses a behavioral issue, therefore clouding the grade report

Formative assessments and practice assignments should be assessed, but not graded

Questions

How can we keep formative assessment and practice assignment results by standard in a way that resembles a gradebook?

If we are moving away from having many grades to fill the gradebook and focusing on teaching instead of grading, how can we still keep parents informed of their child's learning via Illuminate?

Goal

Use grading to inform instruction and encourage learning

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1.  Teaching and learning should take presidence over grading.
2.  Process for moving from study/theory to practice.
3. Work with small groups that are ready to move forward from traditional to highly effective grading practices.

Questions
1. How can we best set up indicators for mastery?
2. How do we set up standards-based gradebooks with decaying averages, that use assessments covering multiple standards?

Goal
Create a timeline for the process.

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1. Student grades should reflect a precise skill, not broad and general skills.
2. Current grading practices do not show what students can and cannot do.
3. "Fluff" needs to be taken out of grades so that they adequately show what students are able to do.
Question:
1. What will this new grade book look like?
2. How do we implement it seamlessly?
Goal:
1. Begin exploring standards-based grade books and report card.

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Take Aways:

Grades should reflect academic achievement

Shared professional learning

Ongoing feedback

Schoolwide Book Study

Questions/Concerns:

Would a signed pledge of commitment work for our school?

How can we manage to do this study with all the other commitments we have?

1 Goal:
Gain an understanding of what effective feedback looks like with students.

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Putting Standards-Based Grading Into ActionBy Stephanie Pinkin

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Putting Standards-Based Grading Into ActionBy Stephanie Pinkin

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Take aways:
1) A student is “judged” on what she/he knows.
2) Grades are entirely flexible.
3) One percentage to represent all of a student’s knowledge of the content covered in a class.

Questions/Concerns:
A shift in grading procedures

Goal: ?

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What is the difference between SBG and CBG?

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What is the difference between SBG and CBG?

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TAKE-AWAYS:  SBG " involves measuring students' proficiency on well-defined course objectives."

This article would be good for a middle school or high school site and standards-based grading and competency-based grading seem to be used inter-changablely at this level.  There's a short video and table in this article that would help people have a good convo.

QUESTION: how often, how much should students be allowed to "retake"?