Standards-Based Grading: How to Implement a Meaningful Grading System that Improves Student Success - HELD VIRTUALLY

Standards-Based Grading: How to Implement a Meaningful Grading System that Improves Student Success

HELD VIRTUALLY

One workshop on two nights:

Wednesday, September, 2025

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

4:00 PM - 7:45 PM

Those repeating this workshop each new school year WILL RECEIVE CREDIT AGAIN as there is new content!

***School years go from July 1 - June 30***

$30 for Support Staff

$50 for NASA Members

$75 for Non-NASA Members

Kate Borrows

Kate Barrows is a Strobel Education consultant with extensive experience in a variety of diverse settings and roles.  She served in reading and English classrooms as a teacher and instructional leader for fifteen years and  a library media specialist for four years.  She recently completed the ESL endorsement program at University of Louisville and has presented at local, state, and national conferences about best practice in literacy for struggling adolescents. She is active in many facets of education including curriculum and standards development, assessment writing, PBL, and Inquiry Design. Specializing in at-risk populations, Kate brings both a sense of urgency and a great attitude to the table. Always rooting for the underdog, Kate isn’t afraid of a challenge.

ALL are welcome, including anyone in a non-administrative position!

Participants will earn .5 credit (7.5 hours) toward license renewal!

This workshop ALSO counts for step advancement in Clark and most Nevada School Districts!

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In CCSD, those in non-administrative licensed positions may count this workshop for license renewal AND ALSO 2.5 CUs - THOSE IN NON-ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS EARN BOTH!

In CCSD, administrators and professional-technical administrators may count this workshop for license renewal OR 2.5 hours toward step-advancement - not both for administrators.

Washoe County participants will be required to also register for this course in "MyPGS" in order to receive in-service credit toward salary advancement.

Washoe County School District (WCSD) participants are required to submit a 300-word essay on how they will implement this professional learning to increase student achievement before a certificate is issued.

Workshop Summary:

This workshop is designed to address a recurring challenge in the educational system – the gaps in portraying student proficiency due to current conventional grading approaches. Often, such approaches relying largely on numbers and percentages obscure the true capacity of our students, thereby limiting their development by depriving them of crucial feedback.

That’s where Standards-Based Grading comes in. Standards-Based Grading is a system that clearly identifies the standards students have mastered, tracks specific progress, and illustrates the big picture for long-term development.

In this Strobel Education workshop, we show you how to implement Standards-Based Grading in your classroom and school so that you can collect data that’s meaningful and paints a clear picture of student achievement.

Join us in identifying academic growth areas and shaping them into pathways for improvement utilizing our Standards-Based Grading module as an agent of change for both instruction methods and student performance. Revolutionize student assessment and spur exponential improvement by telling the whole picture of student achievement clearly and effectively.

All Pre K-12 educators strive to develop assessments that are seamlessly woven into the instructional process. This workshop will help every educator design lessons and assessments to pinpoint mastered standards, track specific progress, and present a comprehensive overview for long-term development to give a clearer picture of a student’s learning progress. No matter the content area, all educators endeavor to help students participate in metacognitive activities to enhance their comprehension and take greater responsibility for their learning. As standards are frequently explained in a language accessible to students, their involvement in the learning process intensifies. This transition redirects the focus from earning points for a grade to achieving a thorough understanding of a concept. This strategy involves encouraging students to "self-assess" their mastery of learning targets. This not only offers valuable insights for the teacher but also prompts students to pose more insightful questions as they are more involved with their learning. All participants will learn strategies to help adjust instruction in real-time to help bridge learning gaps and improve student performance.