1-3 year vision for Middle Schools: Taking small steps to shift more towards right

Year 1 (2014-2015)
Work Completed
Grade Reflects
Grade Reflects:
Current Practices

Year 3 (2016-2017)
Explore/Pilot

Future Work

Action step

Action step

Action step

Action step

Action Step

Action Step

Review/Revise power
standards by
department/grade
level/course

Provide
professional
development on
writing common
assessments and
rubrics

Review /Revise
identical common
summative
assessments to
reflect standards
based approach

Create a variety
of identical
common
assessments
(Completed end
of 16-17 school
yr.)

Develop an
understanding of
data analysis with
common
assessments
(Completed end of
16-17 school yr.)

Review /Revise
formative
assessments to
reflect standards
based approach

Explore and
introduce
procedures to
address cheating/
Plagiarism
(Semester 2, 15-16)

Identify Learning
Behaviors to be
reported and
separated from
student
achievement
grade

Develop a Learning
Behavior reporting
instrument

Create a support
system for
teachers and
students to
address
problematic
learning
behaviors

Assist students in
becoming informed
and involved
learners by using:
*I can statements

Transition to
standards-based
IEPs

Teach students to
set measurable
goals and how to
achieve those goals

Address late work

practices
(Semester 2, 1516)

Grade Reflects:
Behavior and
Learning

Address zero/ no
count practices
(Semester 2, 1516)

Grade Reflects:
Teacher Directed
Learning and
Assessment

Implementation

Address retake/redo
practices

Provide
professional
development on
replacement
practices listed
above
Address extra
credit practices
(Semester 2, 1516)

Grade Reflects
Grade Reflects:
Standard-Based
Common
Assessment per
course/department

Grade Reflects:
Separation of
Learning and
Behavior with a
focus on Learning

Grade Reflects:
Student Driven
Learning and
Collaboration with
Assessment

Provide
professional
development on
replacement
practices listed
above

*Reflection sheets
*Self-assesments

Grade Reflects:
Short-term Student
Motivation

PBIS/RTI/MTSS
PST

Grade Reflects:
Quantity

Grade Reflects:
Subjective
Assessment Process

Create/review I
can statements
for Learning
Targets

Determine the role

of homework/
formative
assessment, if any,
in the overall grade
(i.e. 90/10)
Semester 2, 15-16
Display Learning
Targets I can

Display exemplars
for all products

Establish
instructional
practices that
foster long term
retention
Grade reflects
student progress
on standards

Grade Reflects:
Long-term Student
Learning

Assess and
report on a
students most
current and/or
consistent level
of performance
on standards

Grade Reflects:
Objective/Evidence
Based Assessment
Process

Grade Reflects:
Quality