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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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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?