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I'm excited to announce the launch of 3 resources to support educators with tackling one of the most challenging and emotionally charged conversations in today’s schools: our inconsistent grading practices and the ways they can inadvertently perpetuate achievement and opportunity gaps. Learn how grading practices that are accurate, bias-resistant, and motivational improve learning, minimize grade inflation, reduce failure rates, and become a lever for creating stronger student-teacher relationships and more caring classrooms.
Grading for Equity, now available on Amazon, blends theoretical research across the fields of motivation, pedagogy, and social science, with practical how-to's of equitable grading practices tested by hundreds of teachers. Read the Prologue and Chapter One here.
Grading for Equity: the online course, now available on Teachable, is a series of self-paced modules that include video, articles, and reflective exercises. It also includes a Zoom virtual meeting for all participants to learn from each other and share experiences with grading.
gradingforequity.org is a website that provides readings about equitable grading, teacher artifacts and examples of equitable grading practices, and teachers' stories of their struggles and successes with these practices.
Equitable grading practices have been PROVEN to reduce the achievement gap and to make grades more accurate. Plus, grading practices are a mirror not only for students, but also for us as their teachers. Each one of us should start by asking, “What do my grading practices say about who I am and what I believe?” These resources can give you the courage and the support to learn about traditional practices and more equitable alternatives.
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