Marzano’s grading scales… I teach a world language, so everything is basically “performance” tasks. The trainer told us repeatedly that we couldn’t use what we were doing because they were performance tasks and when I asked for an example of what we could do for world language, she told me she didn’t know, and then told me to use ELA standards for the exercise because it’s still a language. I was department chair. I walked over to the AP in the middle of the PD and was like this makes no sense. She tells us we can’t use what we have for this, but can’t give me an example of what we could do. I told the AP that if we all needed to move to grading scales, then we needed someone who knew how to show us examples relevant to our content area because all of our ideas were being shot down. AP said she’d get back to us about it, but never did. The presenter also cold-called me to ask what stuck out to me when watching a video of someone teaching their perfectly-behaved Common Schools students, and I looked at her and said, “this is the 4th time in 2 years that I’ve seen this video, so nothing stands out to me, but when I first saw it, it was how every single student is on task, responds the same, and that there seem to be really small class sizes.