Grade Cleanse presents a six-step process to uncover what lies within traditional grading practices so that you can reflect, make changes, and improve! This unique approach allows you to move at your own pace. Each "grade cleanse" is accompanied by a series of challenges and "how-to" baby steps. Grading can be a meaningful process that supports reflection and growth. Cleansed grades are healthy grades, and healthy grades support learning!

Grade Cleanse

Garnet Hillman

Danny Hill

Power of ICU

No one can argue that effective classroom management is critical for teaching, but what if there was something more than just managing student behavior. What if we could stop simply trying to control or deal with students? What if we could move beyond the tips and tricks of traditional management systems and obtain a more harmonious environment for students and teachers? The beautiful thing is we can. In Moving Beyond Classroom Management: Leading a Culture of Learning, Katie Budrow and Garnet Hillman show how to shift away from short-term classroom management solutions and create a culture of trust, empathy, and safety that builds essential leadership skills for students to use in the classroom and throughout their lives.

Moving Beyond Classroom Management: Leading a Culture of Learning

Katie Budrow

FIRST Educational Resources, LLC

Get past the knowing-doing gap and confidently implement standards-based learning. This book offers a comprehensive look at what standards-based learning looks like in action, from creating formative assessments to using data to inform instruction to transitioning to standards-based grading systems. Instead of comparing students to each other, standards-based learning compares students' proficiency levels to performance standards and learning targets. Each chapter offers readers a well-thought-out action plan for implementation and effective strategies for communicating with students and parents about the classroom changes that will occur during the transition. Use this book as your action plan for implementing standards-based learning: 
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<li>Explore concrete steps for putting standards-based grading, instruction, and learning into action.</li> <li>Implement schoolwide change beginning with classroom practices.</li> <li>Address common implementation mistakes and challenges.</li> <li>Effectively sequence units and align them with unpacked standards and learning targets.</li> <li>Create effective proficiency level scales and rubrics.</li>
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Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Standards-Based Learning in Action Chapter 2: Standards Alignment in Action Chapter 3: Formative Assessment in Action Chapter 4: Effective Feedback in Action Chapter 5: Meaningful Homework in Action Chapter 6: Self- and Peer Assessment in Action Chapter 7: Summative Assessment in Action Chapter 8: Redos, Retakes, and Reassessment in Action Chapter 9: Proficiency Scales and Rubrics in Action Chapter 10: Standards-Based Reporting in Action Epilogue References and Resources Index

Standards-Based Learning in Action: Moving from Theory to Practice (A Guide to Implementing Standards-Based Grading, Instruction, and Learning)

Education & Teaching

Tom Schimmer

Mandy Stalets

Schools & Teaching

Solution Tree

Maximize student self-efficacy and growth by providing high-quality feedback students can act on. In Coaching Your Classroom, authors Garnet Hillman and Mandy Stalets share a fresh perspective on effective classroom feedback for all grade levels and content areas. Explore the parallels between teaching students and coaching athletes, and then learn how you can coach every student to success every day. Use this book to implement effective classroom communication and student feedback: 
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<li>Analyze the impact of learning-centered classroom language and formative assessment on student learning.</li> <li>Understand the importance of effective communication in the classroom, as well as how giving feedback works and what a student-centered culture looks like.</li> <li>Embrace the qualities of actionable classroom feedback and examine the effect on student engagement and intrinsic motivation.</li> <li>Learn how to deliver individualized next steps and support students through the feedback loop and the gradual release of responsibility.</li> <li>Read real-world accounts and examples from teachers who have successfully coached their classrooms with effective classroom communication.</li>
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Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Adopt a Language of Learning Chapter 2: Coach Every Student Chapter 3: Craft High-Quality Feedback Chapter 4: Utilize Feedback Methods Chapter 5: Ensure Productive Response Chapter 6: Employ Self- and Peer Assessment Epilogue References and Resources

Coaching Your Classroom: How to Deliver Actionable Feedback to Students (Coaching Students in the Classroom Through Effective Feedback and Communication)

Solution Tree Press

When designed in ways that inspire and motivate, assessment is a gift to our students. With this resource as your guide, you'll embrace a fresh mindset where assessment becomes a process that propels meaningful learning for all. Authors Garnet Hillman and Mandy Stalets dive deep into how you can work individually or collaboratively to intentionally identify and unwrap priority standards, develop learning progressions, design assessments, and plan daily instruction. Design mindful, intentional assessment practices that develop learning progressions and help students plan their own path to proficiency: <ul> <li>Understand how to use formal and informal formative assessment as well as summative assessment to empower students and increase learning for all.</li> <li>Analyze ways to plan backward and design mindful assessment and instruction.</li> <li>Receive practical steps for application for developing learning progressions, summative assessments, and formative assessments.</li> <li>Discover how to collaborate around assessment with professional learning community (PLC) concepts.</li> <li>Answer end-of-chapter reflection questions to deepen your understanding of key concepts.</li> </ul> Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Assessment Defined Chapter 2: Learning Progressions Chapter 3: Summative Assessment Chapter 4: Informal Formative Assessment Chapter 5: Formal Formative Assessment Chapter 6: Assessment Comes Full Circle Conclusion References and Resources Index

Assessment as a Catalyst for Learning: Creating a Responsive and Fluid Process to Inspire All Students (Practical Strategies and Tools to Implement Mindful, Intentional Assessment Practices)