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Jason Finley

Avoid Hit-or-Miss Professional Development - 1 views

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    "Implementing proficiency-based learning options for the long term requires purposeful and specific components to ensure that practices can be sustained and result in a new learning culture that improves student achievement."
Jen Kravitz

If I Don't Grade It, The Students Won't Do It! - 3 views

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    The experience of a middle school teacher moving away from grading towards comments and her finding that this creates a better environment for all... and more work is being done
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    Thanks for posting! I have heard this statement come out of more than one teacher's mouth. It will take time, but if we can create common language around proficiency based standards and learning and be consistent in its use, kids will catch on. My hope is that more and more of our classrooms begin to look like the one described.
Jason Finley

Proficiency-based Graduation Expectations - 10 views

Susan, A few years ago Moosalamoo Center at Otter Valley started the process of moving towards narrative report cards. At this same time we were moving to a more heterogeneously mixed group of stud...

Keeping It Real: Authentic Assessment assessment portfolios

Jason Finley

When Success is the Only Option: Designing Competency-Based Pathways for Next Generation Learning - 3 views

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    "...draws on interviews and site visits with innovators and the limited literature that has been developed on the topic of competency-based approaches. The first section introduces a working definition for competency-based pathways that hopefully will be the beginning of creating consensus on the characteristics of a high-quality approach to guide policy. The second section explores the driving forces behind competency-based innovations and implementation issues. The last section highlights a number of challenges facing states and districts as they explore competency-based approaches."
Jason Finley

Intro to PBGRs - 5 views

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    Documents via Sarah Bertucci from the Proficiency Based Graduation Requirement Workshop. Includes documents/pieces from Harwood, Vergennes, Big Picture.
Michael Martin

Proficiency-Based Graduation Requirements (PBGR): ePortfolios - 0 views

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    Dr. Helen Barrett shows how portfolios can be used as reflective work tools and and also to report out on student learning--two different purposes obviously.This is a follow-up to the discussion led by Jean Berthiaume at our Rowland Fellows Meeting this week. Here is her lecture on the topic: http://blip.tv/eportfolios/balancing-the-two-faces-of-eportfolios-3162109
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    I wonder if there could be some mutual advantages of a high school and a college working together on a framework around ePortfolios?
Jason Finley

Conservative education reform: The Floridian school of thought | The Economist - 1 views

  • First Florida started grading its schools from A to F, based on the proficiency and progress of pupils in annual reading, writing, maths and science tests. The state gives extra money to schools that get an A or improve their grade, and children at schools that get two F grades in four years are allowed to transfer to better schools.
  • Second, Florida stopped letting third-grade pupils who could barely read go on to fourth grade (a practice, common all over America, called “social promotion”).
  • Third, it created a merit-pay system in which teachers whose pupils pass certain exams get bonuses.
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  • Fourth, it gave parents much greater choice, with state vouchers, between public, charter, private and even online schools.
  • Fifth, Florida set up new methods of certification to draw more talented people into the profession, even if those people have no college degree specifically in education.
  • Controversial at the time, these reforms now have bipartisan support in Florida, where black and Hispanic pupils in particular have made huge gains.
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    Debatable, but interesting reforms.  While I may not agree with all of the pieces I do like that they are taking a multipronged approach...and that they are not just talking about transformation, but taking real and decisive actions.
Jason Finley

Big Picture Program - When to award credit - 2 views

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    Documents via Sarah Bertucci from the Proficiency Based Graduation Requirement Workshop
Jason Finley

Amazing Graph Proves Poverty Doesn't Matter!(?) - 4 views

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    "This is a graph for the ages, and it comes from a presentation by the New Jersey Commissioner of Education given at the NJASA Commissioner's Convocation in Jackson, NJ on Feb 29." Notice of "Selected Schools"
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    "...reality is that Free/Reduced lunch alone explains about 2/3 of the variation in proficiency rates across schools." We want Education Transformation in Vermont...address this issue alone. Reach this population... This is both the hardest problem and the most obvious...why is our focus not 100% on this issue?
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    I would love to share with others my work during my sabbatical on the Achievement Gap at Burr and Burton Academy. I am willing to do consulting work for schools in Vermont about how to address poverty in a white, rural state.
Shaun Noonan

Making Mastery Work - 3 views

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    Nellie Mae has put together a nice piece of work.
Mike McRaith

Digital Platform for PBL and PBG - 5 views

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    Hey folks, I know a number of you are interested in Proficiency Based Grading. I also know that finding a digital platform to support flexible pathways and grading models has been difficult. I came across this software and support system. I saw it in action in a small charter school in Wisconsin and it seemed to work very well!
Jason Finley

Innovate to Educate: System [Re]Design for Personalized Learning - 3 views

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    "On August 4-6, 2010 in Boston (MA), 150 invited education leaders convened at the SIIA-ASCD CCSSO Symposium on [Re]Design for Personalized Learning. They gathered under the common belief that today's education system is inadequate to meet the needs of tomorrow, and focused on identifying changes essential to transform learning for each student. Following are the Symposium participants' key findings about how to redesign our current education model to a student-centered, customized learning model that will better engage, motivate, and prepare our students to be career and college ready."
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