Topic: Assessment and Accountability

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A Guide to Transforming Your District’s Grading Practices

Transforming grading practices means shifting to a student-centered system that measures mastery, promotes equity and is implemented through a thoughtful, phased change process

Abbie Forbus Everett
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

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Shifting Your Grading Practices: 8 Examples from the Field

How schools and districts across the U.S. are redefining grading through student-centered, competency-based approaches that prioritize mastery, transparency and consistency

Abbie Forbus Everett
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

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3 Reasons Why You Should Reassess Your Grading Practices

As education systems move toward student-centered learning, rethinking grading practices is essential.

Abbie Forbus Everett
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

Text reading, "Grading: traditional v competency-based

Traditional Grading Vs. Competency-based Grading

Contrasting traditional and competency-based grading through three core principles

Abbie Forbus Everett
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

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Imagining the Future of Educator Licensure: Minnesota’s Bold Step Forward

What does reimagining teacher licensure look like when faced with teacher shortages and other forces reshaping education?

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

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Ideas and Tips for Student Agency in Assessment

Empowering students to set goals and track their progress using clear rubrics and reflective tools

Abbie Forbus Everett
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

Evaluating Technical Quality in the Context of Assessment Innovation

Examination of how to evaluate technical quality for innovative assessment systems

KnowledgeWorks

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Futures of Assessment

This forecast imagines possibilities in four futures that use asset-based formative assessment.

KnowledgeWorks

We have an opportunity to consider approaches to assessment to suit the education landscape and support individual learning and growth.

What might a minimal federal footprint mean for school quality systems?

Helping education constituents navigate today’s shifting landscape with resilience and success

Lillian Pace
Vice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement

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Supporting Students, Advancing Our Future

KnowledgeWorks recommended short- and long-term actions for the new administration in four key areas

KnowledgeWorks

photo of three women of different races/ethnicities smiling at the camera: Lillian Pace, Brenda Calderon and Amalia Chamorro

Innovating Assessment Through Federal and State Partnerships

Research tells us assessments in traditional education systems aren’t working. Explore how states can work with the federal government to innovate assessments.

Lillian Pace
Vice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement

A bulletin board showing various charts and images of what mastery looks like

123 Not ABC: Measuring Mastery at Kenowa Hills

At the Early Childhood Center in Kenowa Hills, Michigan, posters help explain proficiency grading levels.

Emily Smith
Senior Director of Network Advancement

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