Liberating Assessment from Grading led by Jared Colley & Nick Dressler

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This interactive brainstorming session focused practical solutions for more effective assessment as well as grading techniques that are more closely aligned with the resulting feedback. Jared Colley and Nick Dressler share practices that they have implemented at their schools.


Video PD Lite:

What Your Grades Really Mean | Eva Ren | TEDxEdenHighSchoolThe Most Effective Grading and Reporting Practices | Thomas R. GuskeyGrading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, How It Transforms Schools and Classrooms | Mark Boswell and Joe Feldman, 2019 NAIS People of Color Conference

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Joel Backon

Joel Backon has been the Editor of Intrepid Ed News since its inception in January 2021, responsible for all educator content on the website. He joined the OESIS Network, owner of Intrepid, in 2019 as Vice President. Joel spent much of his career at Choate Rosemary Hall (CT) where for 27 years he held founding roles in Information and Academic Technology, as well as being a classroom teacher, curriculum designer, coach, dorm head, and student adviser. Prior to Choate, Joel spent 15 years in the printing and publishing industry educating printers on how to maximize their strengths and minimize weaknesses. He has crusaded to achieve consensus on the question of why we educate kids in an effort to meet the learning needs of every student.

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