Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Colchester, VT: Standards-Based Grading
Many high school math problems are made up of a variety of skills (or standards). Using Standards-based grading, do you break down each problem & grade each step?
Standards-based grading pilot
This school continues to us an A-F (15 level) scale with a standards-based grading.
Q&A: Standards-based grading expert Robert Marzano talks about Bangor Township Schools new grading system
Has the Maine DOE also hired Robert Marzano?
Monday, November 29, 2010
Equity and fairness Maine's publicly chartered schools
An excerpt for the article:
"Supt. William Shuttleworth of RSU 1 has been among the most aggressive "can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs" reformers in Maine - in large part because he recognizes that change is going to come. If we're to protect, preserve, and extend the promise of public education in the US, those of us in the system (those of us who ARE the system) need to embrace the new paradigm. Later this week, Maine Enterprise Schools will present this week a dollars-in, dollars-out plan for a collaboration with two or more local non-profits and the four districts that make up the Bath Regional Vocational and Technical Institute. Not only will this proposal not require additional infrastructure, it is explicitly designed to leverage other investment that will preserve and transform cultural assets such as Morris Farm in Wiscasset, the Boothway Railway Village and Museum, Round Top Farm in Damariscotta, or the Kennebec Freight Shed in Bath."
Click on the title to link directly to the entire piece! Interesting reading.
"Supt. William Shuttleworth of RSU 1 has been among the most aggressive "can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs" reformers in Maine - in large part because he recognizes that change is going to come. If we're to protect, preserve, and extend the promise of public education in the US, those of us in the system (those of us who ARE the system) need to embrace the new paradigm. Later this week, Maine Enterprise Schools will present this week a dollars-in, dollars-out plan for a collaboration with two or more local non-profits and the four districts that make up the Bath Regional Vocational and Technical Institute. Not only will this proposal not require additional infrastructure, it is explicitly designed to leverage other investment that will preserve and transform cultural assets such as Morris Farm in Wiscasset, the Boothway Railway Village and Museum, Round Top Farm in Damariscotta, or the Kennebec Freight Shed in Bath."
Click on the title to link directly to the entire piece! Interesting reading.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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