Resources


 * __Links to Helpful Resources:__**


 * PowerPoint Presentation from 1st Meeting - [|Big Horn Grading PDP.ppt]
 * Guidelines to the Meaning of Grades - [|click here]
 * Tool for reaching consensus - [|Gradients_of_Agreement.pdf]
 * Alfie Kohn article [|"From Degrading to De-Grading"]
 * Background profile of Ken O'Connor - author of our text: http://about.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=61458148
 * Background school of author of resource text: [|http://schome.open.ac.uk/wikiworks/index.php/Education_system_in_Canada__]
 * A Dissenting Opinion -- [|"Do Grades Reflect the Student?"]
 * College Professor assigns grades -- [|"A Tale of Grading Woes"]
 * **Ginger:** This is a good web site: [|gradeinflation.com] It deals with grade inflation at the college level, which obviously impacts us in secondary schools.
 * Where did the practice of grading come from? -- [|"The World's Laziest Teacher"]
 * A New Teacher Assigns Grades -- [|"I Want to Throw Things"]
 * Sharat Chandran (who ever he is...) -- [|"Some Questions and Answers about Grades"]
 * New York Times article -- [|"So Is That Like an A?"]
 * An actual plan that some school came up with, a district wide application to establishing grades -- [|click here]
 * The Blog Site: [|AllThingsPLC] posted podcasts (covering a variety of issues) from the 2007 PLC Summit - [|click here] to download podcasts including some very good information on assessment and grading
 * [|All Things PLC, All in One Place] website - search for specifics on grading and assessment as well as PLCs in general
 * Expanded format [|report card samples] from Ontario's Ministry of Education, mentioned on p. 21 of book w/different link
 * As we come to the end of this PDP, how many of these might we agree on? Please add to [|the list] (taken from our reading and not necessarily the opinion of anyone but the author and a buzillion other standards-based believers).