Equitable Grading Community of Practice 2024-2025
Do your students’ grades accurately reflect their mastery of the standards? Do you ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels trying to juggle hundreds of assignments, checking homework, assigning extra credit, and not seeing positive results in your work? You might need “Grading for Equity”.
This Community of Practice (CoP) challenges traditional approaches to assessment, with participants exploring equity issues related to grading and strategies to overcome them in your classroom. Key practices of equitable grading include:
- Lifting the veil on how to succeed
- Valuing knowledge, not environment or behavior
- Supporting hope and a growth mindset
- Building “soft skills” and motivate students without grading them
- Practices that are accurate and mathematically sound
This CoP is FREE to attend thanks to a generous grant from the Helios Education Foundation.
DETAILS:
Each participant will receive a copy of the book, Grading for Equity, by Joe Feldman.
The CoP is led by TREC Teacher Leader, Jaime Camero, a sixth-grade science teacher at Douglas Elementary in the Flowing Wells Unified School District. She holds a master’s degree in Curriculum and Design and is a National Board Certified Teacher. She has been teaching for 22 years.
Meetings will be held in person at the University of Arizona. FREE Parking.
Meeting Times: First Wednesdays*, starting October thru April, 5:30 PM — 6:30 PM.
- October 2
- November 6
- December 4
- January 8 *Adjustment due to winter break
- February 19 *Adjustment due to facilitator’s availability
- March 5
- April 2
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TREC Community of Practice (CoP) Definition:
Through the different CoPs TREC offers, educators build community while deepening their knowledge, understanding, and expertise to better support their passion for the teaching profession and student success (adapted from Wenger, McDermott, and Synder, 2002).
Benefits of Joining a CoP:
- Collaborative learning in areas identified by teachers as essential to educator wellbeing and student success;
- Educators from different sites and districts connecting with each other and building support networks;
- Support and guidance from our amazing cohorts of TREC Teacher Leaders;
- Recertification Hours (via certificate);
- A copy of the book each CoP is based on.
- For questions regarding this resource, please contact Tucson Regional Educator Collaborative.
- Contact Name: Alicia Durbin
- Email Address: trecarizona@arizona.edu