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May 21, 2009
Location: William Jessup University

Placer County Office of Education Presents:

How to Grade for Learning - Fixes for Broken Grades



Presenter: Ken O’Connor

About the Presenter:Ken O’Connor is an educational consultant. He has been a staff development presenter and facilitator on assessment, grading and reporting, and curriculum design in 32 states and seven provinces. O’Connor has presented at: the National Staff Development Council Annual Conference, the Rick Stiggins Summer Institute, and the National Association of Secondary School Principals Annual Conference, among others.

In this Session, standards-based grading practices will be discussed, and approaches that encourage effective learning and support student success will be presented. Teachers are effectively linking an increasingly broad range of assessment and evaluation approaches with their teaching to improve learning. The next stage is linking this to grading practices in order to make grades accurate, meaningful, consistent, and supportive of learning.

Participants will:

• Analyze fifteen fixes for grades, which really make a difference when they are applied in classrooms
• Have opportunities to discuss the implications of the ideas presented to their school/district