PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING Enacting New Grading Practice s
Feb 22, 2016
PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING
EnactingNewGradingPractices
Essential Question:PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING
What are the common processes, concepts, and vocabulary surrounding grading practices for improved student achievement in your school or district?
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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
Arenas of Change
Culture Conditions
Competencies
Goal
From Change Leadership – Wagner, Kegan
Change grading practices for
the purpose of improving student achievement.
•The Fixes•Instruction matters.
•Organization•Structures•PD•Protocols•Trust
•Gradebook
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PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING
Change grading practices for the purpose of improving student achievement.
Culture Competencies Conventions
Culture Competencies Conventions
Focus Questions
• Who are the players?
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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
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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
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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
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Who are the players?
Stay-at-home• Not opposed to change if
others choose it• Won’t resist but are actively
recruited by saboteurs
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Who are the players?
Saboteurs• Actively committed to
stopping change• Disruptive• Feel appreciated when
isolated
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CommitmentsPEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING
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?