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Lindsay Lyons/Equitable Grading & Assessment Course
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Equitable Grading & Assessment Course

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  • 87 Lessons

Join us to re-imagine grading in classrooms. Reflect on current practices, explore equitable assessment frameworks, and develop a proficiency-based rubric. For returning educators, deepen your understanding with protocols for reviewing student work and engaging families. We'll also create reusable protocols for student self-assessment, formative feedback, and revision.
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Contents

Welcome

Course Introduction
Our Beliefs & How to Use this Course

MODULE 1: Beliefs about Assessment

This module includes 3 lessons

Lesson 0: Hello from Lindsay!
Lesson 1: My Grading Experience
Lesson 2: What do your students believe?
Lesson 3: Reflection

MODULE 2: Assessment Frameworks

Includes 18 lessons

Lesson 1: Generate Questions
Lesson 2: A memory of grading
Lesson 3: Grading, Feedback, and Assessment
Lesson 4: Do you agree or disagree with these statements?
Lesson 5: Your Values
Lesson 6: The Research on Grading
Lesson 7: The Case Against Grades
Lesson 8: Improving Grading
Lesson 9: Competency Collaborative’s Framework (based on Feldman's Grading for Equity)
Lesson 10: Labor-Based Grading
Lesson 11: Inoue's Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: dimension-based grading
Lesson 12: Values Alignment
Lesson 13: MLLs
Lesson 14: IEPs
Lesson 15: Exceeding Grade-Level Expectations
Lesson 16: Explaining your Shift to Students and Families
Lesson 17: Teacher Testimonials
Lesson 18: Action Plan

MODULE 3: Select Priority Standards

This module includes 7 lessons

Lesson 0: Hello from Lindsay!
Lesson 1: Generate Questions
Lesson 2: Benefits to Teachers
Lesson 3: Benefits to Students & Families
Lesson 4: Elements of Priority Standards
Lesson 5: What do your students need to be able to do by the end of the year? (5 SKILLS)
Lesson 6: Align to your Standards
Lesson 7: Your Final List

MODULE 4: Define Proficiency Levels

This module includes 8 lessons

Lesson 1: Generate Questions
Lesson 2: Define Proficiency for Each Skill
Lesson 3: Find a Student Sample
Lesson 4: Check the Standards for Alignment
Lesson 5: How many levels of proficiencies?
Lesson 6: Triangulation for each level
Lesson 7: Repeat for All Skills
Lesson 8: Protocol for "Norming"

MODULE 5: Student Self-Assessment

This module includes 6 lessons

Lesson 00: Hello from Kara & How to Use this Section of the Course
Lesson 0: Generate Questions
Lesson 1a: Self-Assessment on a Rubric in PreK-5
Lesson 1b: Self-Assessment on a Rubric in 6-12
Lesson 2a: Self-Assessment to Direct Classtime Learning in PreK-5
Lesson 2b: Self-Assessment to Direct Classtime Learning in 6-12
Lesson 3: Teacher-Selected Activities
Lesson 4: Student-Selected Activities
Lesson 5a: Student-Led Conferences in PreK-5
Lesson 5b: Student-Led Conferences in 6-12
Lesson 6: Action Plan

MODULE 6: Focused Feedback

This module includes 7 lessons

Lesson 1: Feedback vs. Coaching
Lesson 2a: Peer Review in PreK-5
Lesson 2b: Peer Review in 6-12
Lesson 3: One-on-One Conferencing
Lesson 4: Small Group Instrution & Micro-Grouping
Lesson 5: Identifying Areas for Growth
Lesson 6: Communicate What You Want Students to Focus On
Lesson 7: Action Plan

MODULE 7: Opportunities for Revision

This module includes 8 lessons

Lesson 1: Shifting Your Mindset
Lesson 2: Why revision?
Lesson 3: Getting Ready - How will you schedule regular revision time?
Lesson 4: Getting Ready - How much agency do students have over their revisions?
Lesson 5: The Revision Session
Lesson 6: Next - what can you learn during a revision session?
Lesson 7: Next - Are you adjusting grades?
Lesson 8: Action Plan

MODULE 8: 360 Degree Feedback

This module includes 7 lessons

Lesson 0: Hello from Kara!
Lesson 1: Generate Questions
Lesson 2: What is 360 degree feedback?
Lesson 3: Why bring 360 degree feedback to the classroom?
Lesson 4: Open Avenues for Communication around the shift away from traditional grading
Lesson 5: Invite Families to Experience Assessment in Action
Lesson 6a: Student-Led Conferences in PreK-5
Lesson 6b: Student-Led Conferences in 6-12
Lesson 7: Action Plan

MODULE 9: Calculating Grades for the Gradebook

This module includes 10 lessons

Lesson 0: Hello from Lindsay!
Lesson 1: Generate Questions
Lesson 2: Only Grade Summatives
Lesson 3: Only Count Most Recent Work
Lesson 4: Only Grade Labor
Lesson 5: Consider Your Values
Lesson 6: Consider Grade Conversion Options
Lesson 7: Consider Grading Categories
Lesson 8: Consider Weights
Lesson 9: Where are you now?
Lesson 10: Action Plan