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Riccardo Vocca's avatar

Reading issues like this is inspirational thanks to the wide approach used to explain things and involve different perspectives. Thank you for sharing!

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Pauline Holmes's avatar

I used it as part of my Effective Teaching class the last few years, on the recommendation of my son-in-law who went through the STEP program. I think Joe's wife is a lecturer there at Stanford? Anyway, he came to a session we held for the secondary folks and then later I heard him during a Davis school board meeting - they had a pilot study with interested teachers for at least a year looking at some aspects of his recommendations. I really liked the concepts, as they were just well packaged in his book, but were all based on pretty solid research. He's a great personality and can carry his message with teachers!

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Terry underwood's avatar

The high school district here in Roseville used it for PD a year or two ago. It takes an ambassador to push for the kind of changes needed. I’m working on another post exploring collaborative grading within departments. I think some variation of distancing evaluation for export from the classroom is a necessary step toward exploding the whole blackbox.

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Riccardo Vocca's avatar

Reading issues like this is inspirational thanks to the wide approach used to explain things and involve different perspectives. Thank you for sharing!

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Nick Potkalitsky's avatar

Good to know!

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Nick Potkalitsky's avatar

This is amazing, Terry!!! Can wait to do a deeper read!

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Terry underwood's avatar

Thanks, Nick. This is a prequel to the piece I’m working on for you

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Pauline Holmes's avatar

Terry, are you familiar with Joe Feldman and his book Grading for Equity? Very relevant to your thoughts here! Lots of teachers and schools interested and trying out aspects of his recommendations!

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Terry underwood's avatar

I’ve heard and read about but I haven’t read it. I know it has been read by lots of teacher professional book clubs.

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