Standards-based Learning, Including Grading and Reporting: Myron Dueck is Here to Help with Implementation Considerations on June 11

International author and educational leadership expert Myron Dueck will help participants explore the implementation considerations in a standards-based learning, including grading and reporting system. Items that will be discussed include, but are not limited to: zeroes, homework, multiple and varied forms of assessment opportunities (retakes), and professional learning.

Standards-based Learning, Including Grading and Reporting - Implementation Considerations
June 11, 2019
8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
FFA Enrichment Center 1055 SW Prairie Trail Pkwy, Ankeny, IA

Registration
Register at this link: http://bit.ly/2IQBD5Q with Course #180024
Registration fee $40
No credit activity

Target Audience
Teachers, Administrators, Instructional Coaches, District Office Staff

About the Instructor
Myron Dueck is SD67 District Vice-Principal for Communicating Student Learning in British Columbia. Over the past 22 years, he has worked as an educator in both Canada and New Zealand in subjects ranging from grades 4 to 12. Myron has developed a number of grading, assessment and reporting systems that give students a greater opportunity to show what they understand, as well as play a significant role in the reporting of their learning. He has also been a part of district groups, school committees and governmental bodies that have further broadened his access to innovative ideas. Through sharing his stories, tools and first-hand experiences with public, charter and international school educators around the world, Myron’s presentations have diverged to include global education trends and broader socio-economic realities that impact learning. Find Myron’s best-selling book, Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies that Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn, and his other projects at www.ascd.org.

Our Mission 
To improve the learning outcomes and well-being of all children and youth by providing services and leadership in partnership with families, schools and communities.

Our Goals

• Increase learning growth for students
• Decrease the gap in achievement
• Increase annual graduation rates
• Increase gateways to post-secondary success

Summer’s Almost Here! Watch for a Heartland AEA Van to Pull Up to Your District Admin Building Twice a Week

Heartland AEA vans will deliver twice a week to each district administration building during the summer months. If you have summer school, professional development programs or intercessions and would like regularly scheduled deliveries to additional buildings, email Colleen Miller.

Schedule-to-date:

• Twice-a-week delivery to each district administration building runs June 19 to Aug. 8, 2019.
• Twice-a-week delivery will automatically continue to each building that has an extended year calendar.
• Regular fall van delivery resumes Aug. 12, 2019.

A note about printing:

• Heartland AEA will contact the district to arrange for special delivery of large printing orders during the summer.