2023 MidSchoolMath National Conference

Most school districts, including mine, require teachers to assign grades for student work. At the end of the day, all the stakeholders inevitably judge the grade which reinforces a fixed mindset and no one really knows what the student knows and where they need to grow.

In this session, I will introduce and share resources for the system I am using for pivoting from traditional grades to standards and proficiency based feedback. We’ll work in small groups using culturally and linguistically responsive strategies to achieve our session goals: I can describe the current learner level of understanding for a specific standard using codes. I can create standard specific feedback for a learning outcome. I can coach a student from where they are at in their math learning to level up.