School leaders engaged in grading reforms all struggle with revising the report card. They recognize that their current report card offers little useful information to parents and families about students’ performance in school, and want to provide a better, more comprehensive, and more informative reporting
Understand the Elements of Curriculum-Based Professional Learning By James B. Short and Stephanie Hirsh Teachers ask for basically one thing when it comes to professional learning. Provide me with support to help my students today and tomorrow. The Elements of curriculum-based professional learning answer their request. They
In my early career as a science teacher, I knew the kinds of questions that I wanted students to answer: those questions would require thinking, synthesis of ideas, and the application of those ideas. An obvious place for questions like these was in the follow
Corwin author and teacher leader Barry Gilmore passed away in 2019 at the age of 50, while he was working on his latest passion project, a new book. His editor and co-author powered through their grief to honor his legacy and complete the project. That
Classroom Based Formative Assessment – Assessing as you teach, it’s what you do! By Francis (Skip) Fennell, Beth McCord Kobett, Jonathan A. Wray Assessing student learning is an important responsibility for all schools and teachers. At the classroom level, day-to-day involvement with assessment includes consideration and use