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Synopsis
Effective teacher feedback is crucial to improving student achievement. The author provides educators with practical suggestions for making the grading process more fair, accurate, specific, and timely. In addition to examples and case studies, this edition offers a significant amount of new content, including an exploration of how the Common Core State Standards and new technologies impact grading practices.
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About the Author
Douglas Reeves is founder of the Leadership and Learning Center and a frequent keynote speaker for education, business, nonprofit, and government organizations throughout the world. The author of more than twenty books and many articles on leadership and organizational effectiveness, he has twice been selected for the Harvard Distinguished Authors Series. He was named the 2006 Brock International Laureate for his contributions to education. He also received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Parents Choice Award for his writing for children and parents. Douglas edited and contributed to the Solution Tree anthology Ahead of the Curve and contributed to the anthologies On Common Ground, Change Wars, and 21st Century Skills.
Review
For most teachers, grading students is a gunky game an enterprise ruled more by whim than rigor. Yet, in this exciting new book, Doug Reeves shows educators how they can make grading accurate, fair, specific, and timely. If, as he contends, grading is feedback, then the grade Reeves earns for this volume is a glistening A-plus! --James Popham, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles
In this beautiful book, Doug Reeves, one of the most respected leaders of school reform in the nation, takes the topic of grading and opens it up for us, bringing his insight to assessment, feedback, standards, competition, record keeping, conferring . . . and above all, teaching itself. I read this book as a mother of high school boys and am thankful that he understands the devastation that haphazard grading policies can wreck on students' lives. I read it as a leader of school reform and am overjoyed to be given a lever with which to lift the level of student work. Above all, I read it as a teacher, looking for and finding ways to do the most good that I can for my students. Authoritative, based on mountains of data and eminent good sense, Elements of Grading is accessible not only to read but to implement, and yet it can have world-changing consequences. You will not want to miss this one. --Lucy Calkins, Director of the Reading and Writing Project, Teachers College, Columbia University
In this beautiful book, Doug Reeves, one of the most respected leaders of school reform in the nation, takes the topic of grading and opens it up for us, bringing his insight to assessment, feedback, standards, competition, record keeping, conferring . . . and above all, teaching itself. I read this book as a mother of high school boys and am thankful that he understands the devastation that haphazard grading policies can wreck on students' lives. I read it as a leader of school reform and am overjoyed to be given a lever with which to lift the level of student work. Above all, I read it as a teacher, looking for and finding ways to do the most good that I can for my students. Authoritative, based on mountains of data and eminent good sense, Elements of Grading is accessible not only to read but to implement, and yet it can have world-changing consequences. You will not want to miss this one. --Lucy Calkins, Director of the Reading and Writing Project, Teachers College, Columbia University
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