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How to Go Gradeless -- Assessment That Makes Learning Visible

"What's my grade? What's it worth? Is there extra credit? Is this for a mark? " It's time to shift the conversation and make learning visible. Now, you can easily stop reducing students to a number, letter, or any label that misrepresents learning. Now, you can help children see the value in every single assignment. Today, you can make assessment a rich, ongoing conversation that inspires learning for the sake of learning, rather than as a punishment or a reward. All you have to do is go gradeless.

The best leaders lead from the middle

When school leaders join teachers, students, and parents in a collaborative effort to improve teaching and learning, achievement soars and schools turn into vibrant communities, filled with enthusiastic members.

Teaching and learning feel too much like work

With constant emphasis on higher test scores and teacher accountability, it's easy for schools to become places filled with stress and despair, making teachers dread going to work and students disdain lessons and activities.

In The Inner Principal: Reflections on Educational Leadership, veteran principal David Loader takes the reader on a journey through the heart and mind of a leader. Introspective and warm, thoughtful and imaginative, this timeless classic will provide insight and lessons for school leaders around the world. David Loader is the rare mix of charismatic leader, tireless advocate for children, clever entrepreneur, courageous social commentator, and deeply reflective practitioner - all in the person of a veteran school principal.

The Inner Principal shares his innermost...

The 'Future of Learning' builds a model for how the brain learns by distilling recent cognitive, neuroscientific and sociological research and evidence and then applies this emerging model to create the most efficient Learning Process possible. Having achieved this, the resource then examines the Learning Process from a developmental perspective along with the underlying competencies that enable learners to take far greater agency (responsibility) for their learning. The resource then looks at the how educators may develop their current curriculum into a more conceptually orientated...