Webinar: Advancing Social-Emotional Learning in Massachusetts

Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 2:00 PM

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.

Panelists:
Tara Bennett, Principal, Millbury Jr./Sr. High School
Rachelle Engler Bennett, Associate Commissioner, MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Audrey Jackson, 2016 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year/5th Grade Inclusion Teacher, Joseph P. Manning Elementary School, Boston

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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.