Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king. They include not just academic standards, but several teacher-selected “habits”: responsibility, curiosity, creativity, and self-improvement. In other words, SEL competencies. His main focus? So what will the selected prototypes look like?

Survey 96

Survey Assessment Report Academic Standards 96

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

We’re doing things that are a little radical but still grounded in academic standards. . He says at Two Rivers, they’ve rooted evaluations in standards—Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards—and that helps gets teachers invested. “We’ve always felt like it works,” he explains of Berthold’s assessment model.

How To 101

How To Common Core Academic Standards Outcomes 101

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding.

Assessment 75

Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 75

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Highlights from Bulletin Board follow.

Competency Based Learning 79

Competency Based Learning Common Core Personalized Learning Study 79