My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (June 5, 2016)

Good stuff from Cale Birk on Learner Centered Design – “When we create assumption-based solutions independently of those who the solution will impact, and then fail to collect feedback on how the solution worked, we have become “organization-centered”. 

Great distinction between these tests by Peter Greene.

Great seeing a good friend and talking about helping teachers! https://t.co/NOwgwBwd5t

“Breaking Tradition” via @patrickmlarkin watch his AWESOME @TEDxYouthBHS talk now! https://t.co/ILz0PzXgGa #Tededchat #bpschat #cpchat

Curious why Nza-Ari Khepra launched Project Orange Tree + the #WearOrange campaign? https://t.co/AuMKVkbFCh

Free annotated research papers and accompanying teaching materials

Because noncognitive assessment is still so new to schools, one answer to this question is we don’t yet know. We anticipate that five years from now we may be astounded by the diverse and innovative ways in which educators wield what we believe will be a powerful and creative tool.

My buds @NikkiDRobertson & @patrickmlarkin say: “Tell your story, or someone else will.” #tellyourstory #1to1techat https://t.co/pzdeoIcygX

Great site for audiobooks

My appearance on BAM Radio on the topic of Transgender issues in schools.

From EdWeek – Middle and high schools in Maine are returning their iPads and switching back to laptops after a survey found that 88.5 percent of teachers and 74 percent of students in one district preferred laptops for schoolwork and classroom instruction, 

Student Growth Percentiles are as reliable as flipping a coin according to this report.

“You might as well flip a coin,” Stephen Sireci, one of the report’s authors and a UMass professor at the Center for Educational Assessment, said in an interview. “Our research indicates that student growth percentiles are unreliable and should not be used in teacher evaluations. We see a lot of students being misclassified at the classroom level.”

An overview of all of the research done on grit.

We tell students they need a bachelor’s degree to get ahead. But for too many, the numbers no longer add up.

From the The Council on American-Islamic Relations 

From Jonathan Martin.