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

Monday, November 6, 2017 - 8:00 AM

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. Marking the conclusion of this three-year project, the event will highlight the power of research-practice partnerships and lessons in leveraging high-impact practices to improve outcomes for students.

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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.