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Reading paths if you want a sequence, and the rubrics, templates and planners themselves if you already know what you are after.Where do you want to start?
Four paths through the same material. Each one is a sequence, not a category — you can read it in order and stop when you have what you need.
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Rubric precision, feedback templates, and how to judge what the draft gives you.For department leads
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For heads of department. Professional development, evidence, and what to expect in the first semester.No sequence
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Searchable and filterable by curriculum, for when you already know what you need.Browse everythingRubrics, templates and planners
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AnyArgumentative EssaySubject: English Language Arts Grade: 7th Grade Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.1 – Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. Summary: Students will write ...Use in TA39
AnyGrade 12Basic Essay - AP Literature, 12th GradeTake a look at this example of TA39 feedback for a 12th grade AP Literature writing assignment. The student essays respond to a prompt that asks them to analyze Nella Larsen's "Passing," specifically ...Use in TA39Download
AnyLiterary Analysis EssayCommon Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1 – Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including...Use in TA39
AnyGrade 11Literary Analysis Essay – 11th Grade ELASubject: English Language Arts Grade: 11th Grade (AP Level) Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1 – Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says ...Use in TA39
When a whole department needs to grade the same way
Everything above is self-serve. TA39 also runs a facilitated professional development program across one term, built around your own rubrics rather than a generic workshop.
Phase 1
Rubrics, before anyone grades
Pre-semester · 2–3 hoursYour own rubrics reviewed and tightened, so the feedback drafted against them has something to aim at.Phase 2
One assignment, graded together
During term · 2–2.5 hoursA live assignment worked through as a team, so a department arrives at the same judgment on the same draft.Phase 3
What the revisions showed
End of term · 2–4 hoursThe patterns across a term of drafts, and what they change about what gets taught next.Usually run by one assessment lead per department. Around 8 hours of their time across the term.
Reading is not the point. Running one assignment is.
Bring a rubric and a set of drafts you already have. The first path takes you from there to returned feedback.
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