Events Archive

Beyond Standardized Tests: Assessing Learning and School Quality for Student Success

February 27, 2018

Omni Parker House Hotel, Alcott Room

As we look to the future, how can we create a system that measures what our communities most value for our students and schools while empowering teachers as leaders in preparing every student for success? Join the Rennie Center, the Center for Collaborative Education, and the Massachusetts Consortium of Innovative Education Assessment to learn about an innovative approach to assessment and accountability that includes performance assessments and multiple measures of school quality.

Measuring School Climate in Massachusetts

December 11, 2017

UMass Club, One Beacon Street, Boston

Join the Massachusetts Institute for College and Career Readiness to discuss ways to measure school climate and consider how these results can be used to better our schools.

Research-Practice Partnerships: Lessons Learned from MA Institute for College & Career Readiness

November 06, 2017

UMass Club, One Beacon Street, Boston

Learn about how 14 Massachusetts districts teamed up with researchers from across the country to design, measure, and implement college and career readiness programs.

Social-Emotional Learning: A Teaching, Learning & Leadership Opportunity

October 25, 2017

DoubleTree by Hilton, Westborough, MA

We're teaming up with the Center for the Collaborative Classroom and Transforming Education on this full-day summit on SEL.

Gutman Distinguished Author Series: Improving Education Together

October 25, 2017

Gutman Conference Center, Area 3, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge

Join us to hear about a new book that provides a step-by-step guide to Labor-Management-Community collaboration.

College Success for Opportunity Youth

June 12, 2017

UMass Club, Amherst Room, One Beacon Street, Boston

Please join us for the release of a new report on expanding post-secondary pathways for opportunity youth.

Condition of Education in Western Massachusetts

May 10, 2017

Log Cabin | Holyoke, MA

Massachusetts Early College Initiative Launch

March 23, 2017

The UMass Club, One Beacon Street, Boston

Featuring keynote address from Governor Charlie Baker

Webinar: Advancing Social-Emotional Learning in Massachusetts

March 09, 2017

The Rennie Center is teaming up with Transforming Education to host a webinar on the state of social-emotional learning in Massachusetts. The webinar will feature brief presentations on SEL research, including the design and measurement of effective programming, and a panel discussion with the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and educators from local districts.

Webinar: Cultural Competence and College and Career Readiness

January 27, 2017

Join us for a national conversation on the application of culturally sensitive practice in education.

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.