This morning I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School regarding pretty much all of my favorite topics: focusing instruction on learning, designing assessment focused on learning, and changing grading practices focused on learning. Yes, I can't help but notice that "learning" theme, too. Crazy crazy.
Below is the presentation that was used during my little talk (you can also access it here as a Google Presentation), and we had a most excellent question and answer session afterwards which I wish I had recorded--the questions were that good. I think there will be some absolutely amazing things going on in that school in the very near future.