{"data":{"ID":1133,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667325872,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Shifting to More Equitable Grading through Rubrics, Conferences, and Narratives","Handle":"shifting_to_more_equitable_grading_through_rubrics-conferences-and_narratives","ShortDescription":"How do we assess students on what they know and can do instead of how they behave? This is the question we\u2019ve been working through at Science Leadership Academy Middle School and are at the core of our new conference structure. We\u2019ll discuss changes big and small that can center student knowledge in grading.","Description":"As part of a multi-year process, inspired by Joe Feldman\u2019s \u201cGrading for Equity,\u201d Science Leadership Academy Middle School has been re-working and re-aligning how we assess students and communicate their progress. This year, we\u2019re piloting a new report card conference structure. Rather than meeting with families when report cards come out, we\u2019re meeting with students and families at the midway point of the quarter, with a graded rubric and project from each of their classes. Using these as the crux of the conversation, we\u2019re working as a team of advisory-student-family member to understand how learning at project-based SLA-MS works. These conversations are built around the questions: what do students need to keep doing, start doing, stop doing, and where they need help?\r\n\r\nThis process has pushed staff to question their own practices more deeply. What makes a good rubric? How do I write feedback that\u2019s helpful for students to revise specific work? How do I communicate with students and families to help students revise their school practices moving forward? This is work we\u2019re very much in the middle of and are eager to share what we\u2019ve tried, what\u2019s worked, what hasn\u2019t, and get others\u2019 opinions as we seek to better live our core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection.","Link":[],"Audience":["Middle School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"This session will include a series of discussion prompts for attendees to think together about their specific practice and the overarching school practices where they work. We will co-construct notes documents with takeaways for attendees.","Presenter":["Hilary Hamilton","Sarah Bower-Grieco","Timothy Boyle"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA-MS"],"PresenterEmail":["hhamilton@philasd.org","smbowergrieco@philasd.org","tmboyle@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":143,"ScheduleLocationID":28,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10}}