Key+Insights

= = = = =Key Insights from Our Reading= ** Connections made when reviewing the charts from the 10/20/09 meeting (comments): **
 * Grades to suit individuals
 * Grades, a thing of the past
 * Homework, if assigned, should be commented on and importance of/for recognized
 * The primary use of assessments (both types) should be to give students feedback
 * Summarizing / note taking as key skills to learning
 * Common terminology
 * Overwhelming
 * All over the place
 * Exploring
 * Importance of having all voices in the room
 * Timeline – pilot
 * Don’t rush
 * Pick small part to start
 * Benefits of standards-based grading
 * Considerations for conversations with admissions offices
 * Can be unsettling
 * What are the outside pressures?
 * How to know strengths within content areas / standards?
 * How do we assess students?
 * What is addressed for mastery?


 * Succeeding with standards (Guskey?) ** 
 * Short, sweet, practical, realistic
 * Know kids
 * Be realistic with # of standards
 * Spells out definition of standards-based system
 * Difference between “scope and sequence” vs standards that kids should learn and upon which they should be assessed
 * Lots of examples / samples / committee planning tools within book
 * Spiral / don’t repeat same curriculum year after year
 * Good ideas for PD by staff within the book
 * Look through figures as examples…answer questions that we have in a direct way