Standards Based Grading Minutes January 9

Standards Grading Focus Group Minutes 1/9/13

In attendance: Aria, Carla, Marie, Ina, Tom

1. Check in about learning targets for end of 1^st semester
1. What have you changed?

                                                               i.      Changing “Objective” into “Learning Target”

                                                             ii.      Writing the date, learning targets on same page

                                                            iii.      Simplifying learning targets into “I Can”

                                                           iv.      Making the learning targets personal to the students

2. How are you assessing your targets?

                                                               i.      Used exit tickets

                                                             ii.      Thumbs of Understanding

                                                            iii.      Progress towards targets using %

                                                           iv.      Warmups

3. What is working, what isn’t?

                                                               i.      Doing day to day formative is helpful, but not enough data for summative.

2. Clarify vocabulary we use in our classes. We should all be using the same language around standards with our students.
1. How are we communicating learning targets/objectives/goals?

                                                               i.      We want to use the phrase “Learning Target” which are the steps needed in order to reach the main standard.

                                                             ii.      From broadest to specific: Standards, Unit Targets, Learning Targets (use “I can” and has to be action oriented)

2. How are we communicating formative vs. summative assessments?

                                                               i.      Coming back to this in future meeting. Has to do with choosing a graphic organizer.

3. Decide on a graphic organizer to use in order to track student data and progress.
1. Our first goal is: We will create student friendly learning targets and both formative and summative assessments for the beginning unit(s) of second semester.  This includes finding/creating a graphic organizer to use as teachers and students as a means of tracking student data, progress and learning.
2. We like page 6, 7 in Sound Grading Practices binder for students to use.
3. We like page 9 as a way to keep a class scoresheet.
4. Choose your own that you like.

4. Make a plan for reading and discussing 15 fixes.
1. Didn’t get to this. Go on next agenda

5. Create agenda for next meeting 1/23/13.
1. Review and share standards, unit targets and learning targets for the first unit of next semester.
2. We will each choose an organizer to give to students so they can track their own progress and also choose one for us to track class-wide scores.

                                                               i.      Action: Marie will copy the pages we like and put in our mailboxes so we can modify them to our own liking.

3. Create a reading/discussion schedule for 15 Fixes book.