In this bonus episode, Tom offers his perspective on the New Reporting Order in British Columbia set to be implemented in the 2023-24 school year. In PART 1, Tom highlights the backstory and development (and poor messaging) surrounding the implementation of the new curriculum when it was first developed several years ago. In PART 2 (15:15), Tom takes aim at the obsession some have with percentage-based grading and why it is an unreliable, inaccurate, and incomplete way of assessing. In PART 3 (35:04), Tom offers his critiques of the new reporting order, specifically at the assertion made in documents to families from the BC Ministry of Education that "Proficient is the goal for your child" and that "Extending is not the goal for all students in every area of learning."
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Ego of AP | Morgane Michael | Mastery for Targets
Must Be Nice | Tony Reibel | Get Them Talking
Passions or Strengths | Chey Cheney | Concise Answers
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Leave Wordle Alone | Allison Dillard | Trauma-Informed Assessment
Generation Wrong? | Defining Success | Emotional Side of Assessment
Ruining Words | Susan Brookhart | Trust the Process
Why Not You? | Heather Lyon | Instructional Efficiency
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