A Book Review by Denine Laberge Many parents and educators will argue that “This is the way we’ve always done it and it isn’t broken!” To this, Starr Sackstein offers some sound advice, “… the world has changed in the last hundred years and … a 19th century system doesn’t prepare kids for the creativity …
Hacking Assessment : 10 Ways To Go Gradeless In a Traditional School Read More »
Submitted by Veronica Saretsky Written by Lori Jeschke, Dave Carter, Cheryl Shields and Deborah Bidulka the book outlines a large rural school division’s journey to affect sustainable, system-wide change in professional practice around assessment. The school system was moving to a new grade 1-9 report card and used this move to deepen the understandings of …
Residency: Powerful Assessment and Professional Practice Read More »
Aligning Assessment to Brain Science written by Jo Boaler, Stanford Professor of Mathematics Education is about the damage caused by too much grading & testing in math. Although there is an American focus, the article is interesting, nonetheless. The link was sent by my dear friend & colleague Dave Zimmer. Submitted by Damian Cooper
