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Still Trying to Determine Proficiency in Standards Based Grading

Year 15 in teaching, another post on grading. I'm still using standards based grading and I'm still thinking (overthinking?) how to represent stude... Read more

More Thoughts on Standards Tracking

Another test day down and another evening of wrestling with how I track student skill grown and report that through grades. I'm currently giving st... Read more

Thinking About Rubrics for Feedback

A new semester means a fresh gradebook and more time to think about how I'm actually giving feedback and reporting progress. I've been a user of th... Read more

You Can't Build Skills in a Day

Test days are tough for my students because they need to be able to show skills in practice. This year, we're not giving any rote exams - there are... Read more

Thinking More About SBG

We're finishing our first month of school and I'm thinking a lot about my grading system. I use standards-based grading, which boils down to the ma... Read more

Simple Standard Tracking for Students

I took a little while to think about how I'd like students to be able to track their progress on learning standards in class. The web app I built w... Read more

Systems of Assessment

Two weeks in, and I'm coming up on our first major grade check. I'm continuing to use standards-based grading as my main method of assessment and r... Read more

Performance Tasks in SBG

I was given a good challenge by our secondary curriculum coordinator a couple weeks back. He wanted to know how we get in front of standards-based ... Read more

No, Retakes Are Not a Bad Idea

There's an Edutopia article cycling around which argues against allowing retakes on assessments. The author builds a case focused on motivation, me... Read more

What is a Grade?

I had the pleasure of working with about 15 people yesterday on moving to standards-based grading next year. We started off with a long discussion ... Read more

Methods of Calculating Grades in SBG

I'm prepping a full-day workshop on standards based grading for about 20 teachers in a couple weeks. One major part of the day will be centered on ... Read more

Managing Standards Based Grades in Canvas LMS

I'm trying to make standards-based grading more approachable for my teachers. When I was teaching full time, I held to Frank Noschese's Keep It Sim... Read more

Reassessing in Standards Based Grading

I'm helping several teachers move toward standards-based grading practices this year. We work a lot on philosophy - why they'd want to use this gra... Read more

Fair Isn't Always Equal: Three Grading Practices to Avoid

Remember, though, that grades should not be used as rewards. Nor should they be used as affirmation, compensation, or validation. Grades should rep... Read more

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