PEG Intro - Sept. 4 PD

1. MJHS Writes!
Project Essay Grade (PEG)
Blackboard Safe Assign
Entire School Expectations

2. PEG will help students by:
• Standardizing writing instruction school wide through common vocabulary, grading
criteria, rubrics
• Giving students frequent, fast feedback
• Aligning with new TNReady standards/performance-based writing assessments
• Encouraging writing across the curriculum
• Empowering students to evaluate their work at various stages in the writing process
• Recent ACT changes integrate more writing opportunities and synthesis and the scoring
aligns with PEG’s grading criteria

3. PEG will help teachers by:
• Preparing students for new TNReady assessments that writing more than ever
• Using data to differentiate support for student writing (connection to RTI Tier I benchmarking
plan)
• Helping MJHS meet identified performance goals for writing and literacy instruction
• Expanding the use of rubrics and other strategies to engage students in self-assessment
• Facilitating literacy instruction across subject areas
• Allowing content-area teachers to focus on grading content -- not grammar
• Reduce the total amount of time necessary to grade written work
• Transforming writing process from paper-based to digital

4. School Wide Writing (PEG) Expectations
• Use PEG to provide feedback on one written assignment at least 1 per 9 weeks 2016-2017
• Use Safe Assign on these assignments and other course specific writing assignments
• Have students include a writing sample from each of your classes in their digital portfolio
• Always expect and require high quality writing
• Use the PEG rubric(s) to evaluate student writing to maintain a high standard for quality
writing across all courses with common evaluative vocabulary
• Strive to go beyond the minimum standard for writing frequency
• Strive to partner with another content area on a writing assignment and grading
• Strive to have student partners and collaborate through peer editing

5. Tips for Using
Safe Assign
Josh Landers-Presenter