Welcome to the SBG Journey

Heather Naro and Rob BrewittApril 2, 2014

Standards-Based Reporting

Workshop Outcomes • Student engagement

• Grading practices, what is SBR?

• Report cards at ISE

Grit

Turn and Talk

With a neighbor, discuss how grit is important to learning for your child.

Setting the Stage

• Motivation

• Growth Mindset

• Drive

Assessment to Improve Instruction

• “It is very difficult for students to achieve a learning goal unless they understand that goal and can assess what they need to do to reach it. So self-assessment is essential to learning.”

Paul Black et al. 2003

Fixed Mind Set

✓Children are born gifted

✓Children have natural talent

✓Their traits are set in stone

Growth Mind Set

✓Success comes from effort

✓Success comes from practice

✓Success comes from hard work

Turn and Talk

• Do you have a growth or fixed mindset?

“People are, to a large extend, in charge of their own intelligence. Being smart - and staying smart -

is not just a gift, not just a product of their genetic good

fortune, it is very much a product of what they put into it.”

Carol Dweck, PhD

Daniel Pink

•We need to move kids toward autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Drive and Motivation

Offer Praise… The Right Way

• Praise effort and strategy, not intelligence

• Make praise specific

• Offer praise only when there's a good reason for it

Traditional Grading: Potential Factors

“C”“C”

Academic Performance

Behavior Late Work

Homework EffortParticipation

Following Instructions

Median Grade

Average Grade

Weighted Grade

Delete Lowest Grade

Extra Credit

Kevin HawkinsInternational School of Prague

(2012)

Why Standards-Based?

Douglas Reeves

“There is a century of consistent evidence that

makes the need for change in grading policies obvious....

many common grading practices are ineffective and

counterproductive.”

Why Standards-Based?• Our experience shows us that standards-

based assessment and reporting is best for student learning.

• Standards-based is a growth model rather than a deficit model. It promotes improvement and mastery learning.

• Remember....teacher’s are still teaching and the kids are still learning. This is just a new perspective on assessment and reporting that refocuses energy on growth.

Schools Implementing SBA

✓ Hong Kong International School✓ International School Eastern Seaboard✓ Singapore American School✓ American School of Doha✓ Shekou International School✓ International School of Bangkok✓ International School of Prague✓ Jakarta International School✓ Beijing BISS International School✓ Concordia International School Shanghai✓ Shanghai American School✓ American School of Warsaw✓ Anglo-American School of Moscow✓ Bangkok Pattana School✓ Canadian Academy✓ American International School of Guangzhou✓ NESA Reporting Project

Universities Without Letter Grades

The following universities don’t have letter grades or don’t distribute them:

✓ Antioch University✓ Alverno College✓ Bennington College✓ Evergreen State College✓ Fairhaven College✓ Goddard College✓ Hampshire College✓ Harvey Mudd College (for freshmen)✓ MIT (first semester)✓ New College of Florida✓ Reed College✓ Sarah Lawrence College✓ St. John’s College✓ Several Law Schools: Stanford, Berkley, Yale, Harvard, Columbia,

Georgetown

Standards-BasedAssessment & Reporting

A process where each student’s performance is assessed against criteria of learning targets within a specific subject. The standards-based report card communicates progress towards mastery of learning standards.

“In a standards-based school, students are active in thinking

about their learning. They know where they’re going, where they

are now and how to close the gap between the two.”

Rick Stiggins

New Role for Educators

• Shift from teaching

TO

• ...ensuring that all students are learning.

• “Do our grading practices reflect this new role?”

Report CardsDeveloping a Standards-Based

Reporting System

SBG

Determine “Reportables”

• These are academic “standards” for the report card

• Reportables are anchored back to the K12 standards

• Cognitive skills

• Learning competencies

• Performance outcomes

• Use process grading criteria

• Work habits and behaviors

• Social learning skills and effort

• Expected Student Learning Results

• It can include checklists for self-evaluation

Determine Work Habits

The Scale

Achievement Descriptors

Behavior Descriptors

Exemplifies (EX) Consistently

Proficient (PR) Usually

Approaching (AS) Rarely

Concern (CO)

What Does it Look Like?

ESLRsESLRs

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Questions?

How do you see this assessment and reporting systems improving student learning?