IEP Improvement Project

This IEP Improvement Playbook sample highlights a selection of promising practices in the areas of data collection and family engagement. It is intended to support schools and districts as they implement the new IEP forms and consider how to promote system-wide improvement.

More information will be provided in the coming year, including additional Playbook sections.

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Rethinking Grading

March 28, 2024

Schools have assessed student learning and growth with essentially the same grading system for more than a century. Since this system was created, the field has learned so much more about the way students learn, the systemic inequities embedded in the design of traditional grading and assessment, and what type of learning leads to success in life. Grading should be aligned with what we know about the learning process, child and adolescent development, and the demands of career, college, and community life. But traditional grading is so deeply ingrained in our culture, that making changes to this system can seem like an insurmountable task. That’s why we partnered with DESE and reDesign to support five unique high schools as they interrogate their traditional grading practices and make shifts toward new systems that better measure student learning and growth.