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We hope that you will join us for our 2025 Teacher Leader Summit in Denver. June 5 = instructional redesign for deeper learning. June 6 = folding artificial intelligence into the mix. dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2025/05/join... #edcolo #edtech #k12 #edchat #AIinEDU #deeperlearning

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Nice day on campus. @northern-iowa.bsky.social

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Burnham Square across the board.

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Watching the 2022 race in preparation for tonight's Kentucky Derby. youtube.com/watch?v=wIYD... "Rich Strike is coming up on the inside, oh my goodness!"

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As we enter graduation season, if you are looking for an inexpensive - but still meaningful - gift for your high school or college grad, you might consider www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... ($8 paperback, $4 Kindle). It's short and accessible and could make a big different in your young person's life.

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Just wrapped up Zooming into a teacher prep class at Central College. Shared big ideas of standards-based grading and answered questions. These future teachers are excited to grade for the purpose of communicating learning!

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Attention school leaders in the midwest (and beyond?!) 2nd Annual Standards-Based Grading Conference 🗓️ June 16, 2025 📍 Cedar Falls, IA Sign-up your leadership team. 👇 Details and registration --> buff.ly/cMgsHUw #UNISBGconf25

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Join us next week for an engaging and solutions-driven virtual conference focused on overcoming the real challenges of implementing standards-based grading. 🔗 www.firsteducation-us.com/courses/2025...

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Our book assists parents and guardians in understanding what is involved in 21st century grading and how to become better partners with educators in efforts to understand students’ strengths and areas for improvement. Grab your copy today ($30): rowman.com/ISBN/9781475...

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I wrote a guest post on The Grading for Growth about my experience implementing alternative grading practices in a #researchmethods course as a graduate student. Check it out! Thanks to @dccmath.bsky.social and @roberttalbert.bsky.social for the opportunity to share this work.

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The “Skills vs Content” debate is a mirage and a false dichotomy. “Skills” (or competencies) need content for substance; you always have to think about something. “Content” needs cognitive complexity & needs to be used or it’s just trivia.

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Getting our thinking caps on! Tonight in leadership and systems change class, we will be juxtaposing deeper learning ideas from Michael Fullan with 4 big shifts from @scottmcleod.bsky.social #UNIEdLead

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Drawing from school and district experiences, our book identifies common barriers and provides strategies to prevent, contain, and overcome the “fires” that can derail reform efforts. www.firsteducation-us.com/extinguishin...

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A colleague and I shared connections among the core principles of standards-based grading and CASEL competencies at the University of Northern Iowa SEL Conference today. In case you're interested, our published paper is also available in CASEL's journal: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SEL

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Four years later, the Townsley kids still enjoy Do the Math activities from @clontz.org

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From our latest comparative case study #PeerReviewed research: 9th grade students favor modern (vs traditional) grading practices for their fairness and focus on mastery. PDF: digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/ela/vol9/iss...

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Join us on April 29, 2025 for an engaging and solutions-driven virtual conference focused on overcoming the real challenges of implementing standards-based grading. #STAGR Register today --> www.firsteducation-us.com/courses/2025...

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Attention school leaders! 2nd Annual Standards-Based Grading Conference 🗓️ June 16, 2025 📍 Cedar Falls, IA Sign-up your leadership team. 👇 Early bird registration through April 1, 2025 --> buff.ly/cMgsHUw #UNISBGconf25

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CAfLN is hosting a Summer Institute in Winnipeg on August 11-14, 2025. For more information and to register: cafln.ca

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Knock, Knock

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Last week, put a bow on this year's onsite and virtual support, collaborating with a motivated elementary grading leadership team in southeast Iowa.

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Anticipate @jonbecker.bsky.social is having a good afternoon . #GoVCU

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Update, it happened: J&W ties for first with Wartburg

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If Johnson and Wales wins the #d3wrestling championship tonight, it will be the first time since 1994 that a team other than Wartburg or Augsburg has won the natty.

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Our book assists parents in understanding what is involved in 21st century grading and how to become better partners with educators in efforts to understand students’ strengths and areas for improvement.

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The Journal of School Administration Research and Development is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal that supports the development and dissemination of research and scholarship in the area of K-12 school administration and leadership. Submit your paper: www.ojed.org/JSARD/about/...

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Join us this spring for an engaging and solutions-driven virtual conference focused on overcoming the real challenges of implementing standards-based grading (SBG). #STAGR buff.ly/YkwOmW7

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Using Grading to Support Student Learning offers an accessible foundation for using grading practices to support student learning through classroom assessment. $31.96 and free shipping! buff.ly/dfrwaDZ

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Rely on our practical guide to help your PLC implement a standards-based grading system at the secondary education level. buff.ly/DxhhHhE

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Sure, we can talk about grading in the "real world"

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Day two supporting the grading leadership team at Vinton Shellsburg High School is in the books!

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New post: Six (6) resources to support your school with redos, reassessment and relearning mctownsley.net/six-resource... #EduSky #Grading #K12

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Drawing from school and district experiences, our book identifies common barriers and provides strategies to prevent, contain, and overcome the “fires” that can derail K-12 grading reform efforts. https://buff.ly/4bexZy6

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When done effectively, summatively assessing students should be one of the most BORING activities for classroom teachers.

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In our latest paper, we describe what mathematics leaders need to know about grading reform and what mathematics leaders should do to support teachers in implementing grading reform. 🔗 openjournals.libs.uga.edu/tme/article/...

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Grading is all about communicating student learning. #EduSky #Sblchat

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Caught not taught: Grading in K-12 schools schools is often inconsistent from classroom to classroom. (For evidence, see the highly cited "A Century of Grading Research" literature review). This inconsistency may stem from a lack of explicit training for educators.

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"Computing averages of the categorical data called grades makes no more sense than averaging ZIP codes" (p. 20). @roberttalbert.bsky.social @dccmath.bsky.social

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