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Reimagined Schools!
Our Learning Progression Model is an approach to teaching and learning that de-emphasizes the role of grades, provides access to learners of all abilities, and shifts the focus back to the acquisition of knowledge and transferable skills.
I want to provide access to resources, investigate new approaches to answer pressing questions in the field of education, and develop a
community of like-minded educators.
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I believe that all students can learn and grow given enough time and support.
Teaching is unique in that content knowledge cannot simply be transferred to others. Children (people) are individuals, each with their own needs, dispositions, strengths, and personalities. Some have significant challenges and obstacles to learning. Regardless of where they live and what their backgrounds are, they are dealing with academic, social, family, and identity issues highly tied to their developmental stages. How can we provide enough time, support, and practice? How do we ground that practice in measurable and attainable learning outcomes?
My Philosophy
I want to foster creativity, growth, and individuality.
This is accomplished through a research-backed, strengths-based approach that is designed to identify and communicate concrete and measurable progress towards these goals. While there are many ways to do this, I have developed a method that is easy to implement and universally applicable.
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Elise Naramore
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Discover insights from the book The Learning Progression Model
Learn how to design meaningful, student-centered learning progressions
Create your own grade translations—and more!
Artifacts
These are documents and guides that I use in my own classes. Feel free to adapt them for your personal classroom needs.
What other documents would be useful to you? Let me know and I’m happy to share.
What other documents would be useful to you? Let me know and I’m happy to share.
Testimonials from teachers and students
I honestly wasn't sure what to expect or how David and Elise were going to help us all in one zoom call, but I truly got so much
out of it! Lots of great feedback and insight, not just for our project, but for me to apply in my classroom too. Elise and
David were so approachable and made it easy to talk to and ask questions. I hope future classes get to have time with them
as well. Thanks again!
“As a group we believe that this method is
beneficial for students. The assessments
are focused, and the feedback provided by
teachers is consistent which allows for
higher student achievement.”
"After five full days of engaging in this project, I can honestly say it has been an incredible journey of both professional and personal growth. I found it not only well-structured, but also offers so much clearer and more meaningful way to track student growth."
"The modules that you have provided on Youtube are helpful for me to see the big picture of the LPM."
"I just want to say a big thank you to Elise — this phase of the project has been incredibly eye-opening. It’s helped me realize how important it is to break skills down into manageable, visible steps, rather than jumping straight to advanced outcomes. The way the sessions were structured really sparked a lot of new thinking for me, and now I’m excited (and motivated!) to start applying Learning Progressions more intentionally in my classroom."
"Because your grading system was not like the grading system for other classes, it encouraged me to find a new work ethic and search for new techniques of studying to attain the best skills and knowledge to help me succeed in the class. It also helped me with my studying mindset because if I didn't do so great on a test it encouraged me just to do better next time and find a focal point for the skills I am struggling with the most."
"What I really take pride in though was my journey to get there. Thanks to your easily accessible office hours we had met a few times outside of class, as well as for semester check-ins. This really helped to enhance and cultivate my understanding and how I worded my scientific discoveries every week. In all, I find that after a long hard year of work, I came out a much better student, with better study techniques, organizational skills, and language usage with a far better outreach to my peers than in previous years."
“This book provides a clear rationale, action steps, and examples to make the changes I have been striving to make! Thank you for providing the clarity that I needed.”
“A fabulous thought-provoking walk through the authors' development of the learning progression. A great complement is their blog, reinaginedschools.com, which has some updates to the grading translation and further development of the ideas. The book is still a worthwhile purchase on its own though, even if one reads the whole blog history (which I have).”
"Since your grading system is different from other teachers, I believe that you were able to see my growth very clearly throughout the year and all the hard work I put in to achieve it....I admire the work you put into your new system of learning."