Grades that tell the truth: standards-based grading, equity, reassessment, and communicating with families.
A single percentage grade blends achievement, behavior, effort, and timing into one number that tells no one much.
Open workshop →WorkshopTraditional grading practices, averaging everything, grading homework and behavior, zeros that sink a grade, often measure compliance and privilege as much as learning.
Open workshop →WorkshopA grade on its own tells a family very little, and sometimes the wrong thing.
Open workshop →WorkshopA single group grade rewards the coasters and punishes the carriers, and tells you little about what any individual learned.
Open workshop →WorkshopIf a grade is supposed to reflect what a student knows, then a student who learns something later should be able to show it, that is the case for reassessment.
Open workshop →WorkshopFew grading issues cause more frustration, and more debate, than late and missing work.
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