Hilton Garden Inn Nashville Downtown Convention Center
305 Korean Veterans Blvd
Nashville, TN 37201
You have a vision for student achievement. Now it’s time to take action. During this workshop, you will discover how to foster rich, rigorous, and authentic learning experiences through an effective system of standards-based learning. Participants will come to understand that standards-based learning is not about standardization but about maximizing the opportunity for all students to achieve mastery of lofty yet attainable curricular goals.
Learning Outcomes
Understand the depth and breadth of a standards-based learning environment and a balanced assessment system.
Learn how to prioritize standards to maximize instructional time, as well as to plan assessments with precision and purpose.
Study the foundational principles of effective feedback and the strategies designed to initiate more learning.
Understand how to create rubrics and scales, knowing which type is the best fit for circumstances.
Learn why self-assessment is the key to student investment in learning, gaining strategies that allow students to be use assessment results.
Explore the practices, processes, and routines of a standards-based grading and reporting system, such as reassessment, gradebook setup, and report card format.
Mandy Stalets is a teacher, author, presenter, and passionate learner who focuses her work on sound assessment and grading practices, as well as standards-based learning and grading. She is a National Board–certified high school mathematics teacher at Illinois State University’s laboratory schools and has also worked as a middle school mathematics teacher.
In 2010, Mandy implemented standards-based learning and grading in her classroom and was an integral part in making that change school- and districtwide. She has successfully used standards-based grading in her middle and high school mathematics classrooms ever since and is passionate about helping other educators and schools on their journey.
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On-site and continental US only.
You will receive a certificate of participation within six weeks after the event concludes.
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