Deeper Learning 2023

In this deep dive you will be introduced to an essential skill, now mostly forgotten but prevalent in 1980s TV action drama. You’ll design performance tasks around that skill (which your fellow participants will try out!) learn about the one-point rubric, a radically simple way to assess student work and performance, and how to think of grades as batting averages. Throughout, you’ll explore critical questions of design and practice. What skills should we be teaching and how do we measure them? How do we give effective feedback? How do we make our systems fair and transparent? How can we make grades meaningful? How do we integrate innovative approaches to curriculum, instruction and assessment into larger systems that too often undermine them? You’ll leave with both big ideas and practical strategies to make assessment more authentic, transparent and practical.