Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
From Chapter 1: As we prepare for our journey, let’s be ready to suspend what we think we know about grading, teaching, learning, and even students. As we’ll learn in chapter 2, we have been brought up in a grading system that is virtually unchanged in over a century and was premised on turn-of-the-twentieth-century beliefs about the role of schools and who they’re for, how to motivate people, and what eff ective teaching and learning look like. We have been unwitting victims of this system as students, and unwitting promoters of this system as teachers (and even as caregivers). For many of us, the system worked just fi ne, or at least we believe that it did, but in fact the traditional system of evaluating students and reporting information about them has been part of the inequities, unfairness, and injustices built into our schools. .
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9.27.21
Hacking Engagement Again: 50 Teacher Tools That Will Make Students Love Your Class
33-year veteran classroom teacher, James Alan Sturtevant, wowed teachers with the original Hacking Engagement, which contained 50 Tips and Tools to Engage Teachers and Learners Daily. Those educators and students got better, but they craved more. So, the veteran classroom teacher and wildly popular student engager Sturtevant is Hacking Engagement Again!