Program: Leadership Academy:Seminar Series
Dates: 3/12/2021 to 6/11/2021
Join us for an unusually candid series of 90-minute sessions in which we get up to speed on modern assessment and grading elements, identifying operating tenets, busting myths, and providing practical responses to these grading challenges. Our sessions will explore the equity and differentiation mindset, becoming principled first, actionable second, disaggregation, averaging or not, the roles and insights regarding types of assessments (formative, summative, common, pre-, alternative, and re-assessments), descriptive feedback techniques, 0's on the 100 point scale turned into 50's (minimum F's), becoming evidentiary, college admissions, gradebooks and report cards, extra credit, marking homework, accommodations/modifications with students identified as needing special education services, and how to avoid conflation and inflation.
Then we will build off of those fundamental understandings and provide tips and insights on how to facilitate the journey of faculty and ourselves as we move toward more equitable and ethical grading practices. We'll provide specific advice on reflective coaching for grading, extended and robust professional development experiences that really help move the needle, creating a grading philosophy statement, six critical conversations that need to be conducted, how to work with skeptics, how to help teachers avoid superficial responses and confront hypocrisy, how to help teachers get past strong egos and accept new initiatives, and how to help teachers identify ethical principles so they can gather their own practical solutions as grading and equity challenge occur.
This workshop is free to districts that have joined the Leadership Academy Seminar Series service (Arlington, Beacon, Pawling, Wappingers, and Webutuck).
Dutchess BOCES is an approved Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) pursuant to Section 80-6 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education.