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So it’s even more important that students have tools they can use to make educated decisions about what they\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/31845/teach-kids-to-be-their-own-filter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> trust online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>IN THE CLASSROOM\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smuhsd.org/domain/514\">Will Colglazier\u003c/a>, a U.S. history teacher in the San Mateo Union High School District, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/ae_fall2017_fake-news.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taking this call to action to heart\u003c/a> at Aragon High School. 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"content": "\u003cp>Michael Matera’s students don’t merely learn about medieval Europe, they live it. Albeit, with a few monsters and enchanted items thrown in the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Milwaukee teacher’s Grade 6 history class is an ongoing role-playing game called \u003ca href=\"http://realmofnobles.com/\">Realm of Nobles\u003c/a>, where students join guilds, earn achievements, make trades and wage the occasional epic battle in an imaginary medieval kingdom. Matera has played the game for years, and maintains that the fusion of history, fantasy, narrative and role-play is an effective formula to engage students in learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The excitement and the pride in their accomplishments are all through the roof. I love seeing kids gaining real-world skills, taking risks and learning from defeat in this gamified class,” said Matera, who wrote \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Explore-Like-Pirate-Gamification-Game-Inspired/dp/0986155500\">Explore Like a Pirate: Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich and Elevate Your Learners\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> a manual for teachers who aspire to design their classes as games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of educators like Matera are remodeling their classes by fusing game elements to their instructional environments. But, does switching grades for experience points and homework for quests amount only to cosmetic surgery? Is school merely being “reskinned” with a new paint job without fundamentally altering the age-old classroom rituals?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Rise of the EduLARP\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of simulations and role-play in education is not a recent development. Model United Nations, historical re-enactments, mock trials and other types of dramatic simulations have been in the teacher toolbox for decades. 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Today, edularps are found in schools in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, and even some \u003ca href=\"http://www.lihighschool.org/2018/07/25/larping-with-lihigh/\">U.S. schools\u003c/a> have jumped into the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrltkfHwZ70\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanne Harder, a game designer and educator who worked at the Østerskov School, thinks that edularps are not only a fun way to learn, but also a better way to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I choose to use role-play as a means of teaching, it is because it is an excellent way of organizing teaching, not because the hobby appeals to its fans,” wrote Harder. “In the 21st century, being a teacher is not about teaching pupils facts, it is about helping them internalize knowledge, skills, and competencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Lynne Bowman and Anne Standiford conducted a \u003ca href=\"http://ijrp.subcultures.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/IJRP-5-Bowman-and-Standiford.pdf\">2016 mixed methods study\u003c/a> of edularps at an L.A. charter school and found that they encouraged “greater motivation, engagement, interaction with peers, collaboration, and comprehension of material,” which is promising, but the area is new and the research nascent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Choosing a Road to Victory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edularps, and other class-as-game variants like alternate reality games (ARGs), pervasive games and gamified class, are popping up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/37884/how-students-can-channel-the-odyssey-into-an-alternate-reality-epic\">schools\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/40025/how-games-can-be-used-to-teach-college-level-chinese\">universities\u003c/a> and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47914/how-a-sword-and-sorcery-camp-uses-immersive-role-play-to-teach-steam\">camps\u003c/a> across North America. While the sword-and-sorcery motif remains prevalent, some educators have diversified into themes and settings that better fit their learning goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While still a high school science teacher, University of Connecticut assistant professor Stephen Slota designed a unit-length game to teach human reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases. “The students worked in teams of three to control a character avatar in a fictitious village, and their goal was to engage in an epidemiological study of the area by investigating locales and speaking to non-player characters as enacted by the instructor,” said Slota, who edited \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Castle-Psychological-Perspectives-Contemporary/dp/1681239353\">\u003cem>Exploding the Castle: Rethinking How Video Games & Game Mechanics Can Shape The Future Of Education\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a collection of game-based learning essays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slota has since developed half a dozen class-as-games for subjects as far-flung as education technology, Latin, psychology and biology. Matera also sets one of his games during the Cold War, and the edularps at the Østerskov School involve a wide range of themes and settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbltSuAcqE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The games tend to be flexible and students are able to alter the unfolding experience through the choices they make. This freedom to shape their circumstances and the accompanying sense of agency is a big part of what engages them in learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve found — both anecdotally and in my research — that freedom to push and pull at the game’s narrative and ruleset provides students with a sense of greater personal ownership, and therefore greater depth of knowledge about content than usually accompanies schoolwork,” said Slota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matera also stresses the importance of student agency, and feels that it marks a significant departure from typical classroom dynamics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Games have clear objects, but no one set path to that victory. This is where strategy comes into play. An RPG, as with many well-designed games, allows for the players to create their own path to victory,” said Matera. “This level of customization and personalization feels different than traditional school because it is different. Students have an opportunity to create their own experience within the game. They earn badges, items and power-ups that allow them to have a unique game characters. This leads to endless strategies, trades and allegiances to help successfully make it through the Realm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston-area teacher Kade Wells also personalizes his class by using a \u003cem>D&D\u003c/em>-style character class system. He gives his students a basic personality test and, based on the results, assigns them one of four roles designed to support classroom management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Protectors\u003c/em> keep the peace and manage group outbursts; \u003cem>Initiators\u003c/em> get things ready and help to get materials, sharpen pencils and put things away; \u003cem>Diplomats\u003c/em> help group members and facilitate all processes and are ultimately responsible for the group’s behavior; \u003cem>Sages\u003c/em> keep the records, help with attendance, make sure that things are orderly and accounted for,” said Wells, who has found the class system empowers his students to self-regulate and take greater ownership of their environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There’s an App for That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matera, Slota and Wells design their games from scratch, cannibalizing a pastiche of web applications, pen-and-paper elements, learning management systems, Google apps, spreadsheets and any other available tools that they can bend to their playful purposes. But teachers who don’t have the time, confidence or knowledge to dive into the DIY approach can turn to commercial software designed to help educators run their classes as games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rezzly’s \u003ca href=\"https://portal.3dgamelab.org/users/sign_in\">3D GameLab\u003c/a>, the University of Michigan’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gradecraft.com/\">GradeCraft\u003c/a>, NEXED’s \u003ca href=\"https://answerables.com/\">Answerables\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.classcraft.com/gamification/\">Classcraft\u003c/a> are gameful learning management systems that have tapped into the class-as-game zeitgeist to help educators keep track of quests, levels, experience points, badges and other game features.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will do anything for XP [experience points] and GP [gold pieces] to level up their avatar,” said Carrie Casey, a Wisconsin middle-school science teacher who uses Classcraft. “I have seen some of my students who will not hand in work — work hard to get their work in for me so they get XP and do not disappoint their team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also helped Casey reach some challenging students: “I have connected to them through gaming where no other teacher has connected to them that year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canadian teacher Justin Matheson says that his Grade 6 students loved the sword-and-sorcery motif, and he credits Classcraft’s video game qualities for fostering perseverance. “With video games, people get to a point where things become increasingly difficult and they experience repeated failure. 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This freedom to shape their circumstances and the accompanying sense of agency is a big part of what engages them in learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve found — both anecdotally and in my research — that freedom to push and pull at the game’s narrative and ruleset provides students with a sense of greater personal ownership, and therefore greater depth of knowledge about content than usually accompanies schoolwork,” said Slota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matera also stresses the importance of student agency, and feels that it marks a significant departure from typical classroom dynamics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Games have clear objects, but no one set path to that victory. This is where strategy comes into play. An RPG, as with many well-designed games, allows for the players to create their own path to victory,” said Matera. “This level of customization and personalization feels different than traditional school because it is different. Students have an opportunity to create their own experience within the game. They earn badges, items and power-ups that allow them to have a unique game characters. This leads to endless strategies, trades and allegiances to help successfully make it through the Realm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston-area teacher Kade Wells also personalizes his class by using a \u003cem>D&D\u003c/em>-style character class system. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally posted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2019/02/12/study-arts-education-boosted-compassion-and-writing-scores/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> by \u003ca class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by Matt Barnum\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/author/mbarnum/\" rel=\"author\">Matt Barnum\u003c/a> on February 12, 2019\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’re the big fish, it’s not OK to pick on the little fish just because you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an important lesson for everyone. 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And adding time for dance, theater, or visual arts isn’t at odds with traditional measures of academic success, according to the research — which amounts to one of the largest gold-standard studies on arts education ever conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Arts learning experiences benefit students in terms of social, emotional, and academic outcomes,” write researchers Dan Bowen of Texas A&M and Brian Kisida of the University of Missouri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://kinder.rice.edu/research/investigating-causal-effects-arts-education-experiences-experimental-evidence-houstons-arts\">released Tuesday\u003c/a> through the Houston Education Research Consortium, looked at elementary and middle schools — which predominantly served low-income students of color — that expressed interest in participating in Houston’s Arts Access Initiative. 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And since low-income children are \u003ca href=\"https://chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/05/30/the-shadow-education-system-how-wealthier-students-benefit-from-art-music-and-theater-over-the-summer-while-poor-kids-miss-out/\">less likely\u003c/a> than their wealthier peers to access things like plays and art galleries over the summer, schools are critical providers of those cultural experiences and the accompanying benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest study came to a mix of conclusions about which group of students benefited the most from the extra arts education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Thompson, another first-grade teacher at Codwell Elementary, said she’s seen the extra arts make a difference for struggling students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some students who don’t excel academically, they’re more engaged, because it gives them a different way to learn,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One caveat to the study is that principals volunteered for the program. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the second article in a two-part series about equitable grading practices. The first article sets up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52679/why-its-crucial-and-really-hard-to-talk-about-more-equitable-grading\">some of the challenges\u003c/a>. In this post, learn how teachers are addressing this issue.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Sigmon first encountered the idea of “grading for equity” when he attended a mandatory professional development training at San Leandro High School led by Joe Feldman, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://crescendoedgroup.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crescendo Education Group\u003c/a>. As a fairly new high school physics teacher, Sigmon says he was open-minded to new ideas, but had thought carefully about his grading system and considered it fair already. Like many teachers, Sigmon had divided his class into different categories (tests, quizzes, classwork, homework, labs, notebook, etc.) and assigned each category a percentage. Then he broke each assignment down and assigned points. A student’s final grade was points earned divided by total points possible. He thought it was simple, neat and fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Looking back, however, Sigmon said this kind of system made it seem like teachers were setting up rules to a game.\u003c/span> “They say these are the rules and whatever the score works out to be that is your grade,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman’s training questioned whether that approach to grading is fair. Feldman laid out a case against giving points for homework and extra credit, and is absolutely against the 0-100 point scale that dominates many classrooms. He maintains that for grades to provide an accurate picture of what students know, they shouldn’t include behavioral things like homework and participation. And, he says when every teacher has a different set of grading practices it’s not only erratic, it’s inequitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of those ideas [presented by Feldman] questioned the reasons behind our grades,” Sigmon said. “And so it’s easy to get defensive about your grading policy or get defensive about those ideas. There was definitely part of me that was resistant and I could see why other teachers would be resistant. As a teacher you want to believe that you’re doing the right thing and that your grades are meaningful and that you’ve figured out a system of grading that makes sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Sigmon looked at the logic and \u003ca href=\"https://crescendoedgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Call-to-Action-for-Equitable-Grading-Oct-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supporting data\u003c/a> Feldman presented and tried tweaking a few things in his classes, those challenging ideas started to make sense to him. He realized the way he graded was largely based on his own experience in school and beliefs about what students “should do.” But when he started to see each teacher’s grading policies as a set of arbitrary rules students are expected to follow, as opposed to a coherent indication of what a student knows, he was ready to make a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to be more thoughtful. My grades now are meant to be an accurate reflection of a student’s mastery of the standards set by the state in high school physics,” Sigmon said. If a student can display their knowledge of those standards without doing the homework, he shouldn’t be penalized for that in his grade, especially because students all have different responsibilities outside of school that can make getting homework done difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Sigmon did was think carefully about what it means to show mastery of each standard the state expects him to teach. He asked himself, “What can I expect high school students to do with this content?” That became the qualification for a B grade. To get an A students had to go beyond that. Earning a C meant the student was close to understanding, but not quite there. Getting a D would be very little understanding, and an F would be almost no understanding at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels biased and subjective and that’s because it is,” Sigmon said. “I have to kind of trust myself as the professional to judge their understanding of a certain concept. That's a tough adjustment to make.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sigmon doesn’t grade by assignment anymore; he grades by standard. That means he’s not assessing things like lab work, classwork or homework anymore. “Those things are all practice,” Sigmon said, although important practice. He only wants to include information that directly relates to their ultimate understanding of the standards in their grade, which he reasons, is supposed to reflect what they know at the end of his course, not how compliant they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.middleweb.com/39402/homework-grading-late-work-oh-my/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Like many teachers\u003c/a> who hear about this style of grading, Sigmon was worried students wouldn’t do homework at all if points weren’t attached to it. And, in fact, he did see a dip in homework completion at first. But, when students started to see their quiz and test grades drop because they weren’t doing homework, they made the connection pretty quickly. Now, Sigmon says his students' homework completion rate is higher than ever, and even better, they have no reason to copy each other’s homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really surprised because after students started failing the assessments they started realizing the only way to improve their grades was to improve their understanding,” Sigmon said. There are still a few kids who try to do as little as possible, but some will even email him for extra questions to get more practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grading and Equity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of \u003ca href=\"http://tguskey.com/wp-content/uploads/Grading-7-Standards-Based-Grading-Will-Improve-Education.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">standards-based grading approach \u003c/a>is a growing trend in some corners of education. It’s part of a push to make sure kids are actually mastering the information they’re supposed to learn, not just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/38533/how-deprogramming-kids-from-how-to-do-school-could-improve-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">playing a points game\u003c/a>. That reasoning is compelling to some teachers who are excited about shifting pedagogy, but Joe Feldman thinks he has an even more compelling reason that schools should start making a shift in how they grade -- equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman has worked in education a long time, first as a high school teacher, then a principal, and later as a central office administrator. He’s been around enough schools and classrooms to know that even when teachers have worked hard to align their curriculum and assessments in order to provide coherence for students, the experiences students have in each teacher’s class can be vastly different. That’s because each teacher grades differently, allotting a different percentage for tests, participation, homework, and even things like effort. Some teachers accept late work with no penalty, others allow students to do extra credit to make up work; some allow retakes on tests and quizzes, others don’t. For students, the result is a thicket of different rules that must be navigated each year or class period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more I really investigated and researched it, I found it wasn’t just an issue of consistency,” Feldman said, “it actually had implications for equity in schools. Many times the grading practices teachers use inadvertently punish students with fewer resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way Feldman sees it, \u003ca href=\"https://crescendoedgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/GradingtoCommunicate-Winger.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teachers use grades for much more\u003c/a> than indicating whether students have mastered the academic content. For example, teachers often deduct points for late work because they want students to respect deadlines and learn responsibility. Or, they know that engagement is important for learning, so they include participation as a portion of the grade. Grades, then, become a behavior management tool, a motivational tool, and sometimes an indication of mastery too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the common practice of averaging grades, for example. One student might come into class with no experience writing a persuasive essay. The first time he tries, he turns in a terrible essay and gets a low score. The next time he improves, and by the end of the semester he’s nailed it. But that student will always have a lower grade than the student who came into class knowing how to write a solid persuasive essay, perhaps because of a summer camp opportunity, and never progressed much further during the year. The second student will get a better average grade, even though she didn’t show growth in her writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really inaccurate to describe a students’ work like that,” Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, Feldman is not saying that teachers consciously develop inequitable grading systems. He knows from experience that the opposite is true. Many teachers go to great lengths to remove bias from the process, doing things like covering student names while grading. The trouble is that some long standing grading practices may be perpetuating bias anyway. Take student participation as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I grade on participation and I'm looking for: Are they looking at me? Are they taking notes? Are they not talking when I’m talking? They are descriptions of how that teacher learned,” Feldman said. “And they believe that if other students exhibit those qualities they’re more likely to learn.” But, he says, that’s subjective, which means a whole portion of a students’ grade could be filtered through a teachers’ unintentional bias towards the style of learning they prefer. The way to get rid of this potential bias in grading is not to reward participation in final grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This elicits a lot of different emotions form teachers,” Feldman said. “I’ve had them cry, yell at me, walk out of the room, write me off as some sort of nut. But as I work with teachers they’ll start to confront the idea that what they believe about students may not be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman understands this reaction from teachers. Education has become more top-down with mandates from the state and district level making teachers feel that their professional judgment is not valued. Grading practices are often the last bastion of autonomy a teacher has and independent grading is enshrined in many teacher contracts. When principals or districts try to suggest ways to make grading more equitable, they are often met with accusations that they are infringing on classroom autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman says the only way teachers come around to what he proposes is by looking at the data, deeply discussing the ideas, and trying some of his strategies in their own classrooms. That’s what convinces most of them to dig in and make changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strategies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One easy way to dip a toe into more equitable grading is to get rid of extra credit. Often these assignments are things like, go to a museum and submit a report, or write an extra essay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things depend on a student having the time, money, resources to be able to do those,” Feldman said. More importantly, they’re beyond the curriculum and shouldn’t be required for the student to understand the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another strategy Feldman recommends is requiring retakes if students score below a certain level. Right now, many students take a test, get a score and move on. The learning stops there. Feldman thinks a more equitable practice is to encourage students to learn from the errors they made on the test and take it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers have told me that when they suggest to students that they’re going to have to retake it there’s resistance from students, but they ultimately appreciate the teacher doing that and build a stronger relationship,” Feldman said. “There’s no clearer message that your teacher cares about you than that they won’t let you fail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And teachers can put parameters on retakes. They may say students can only retake after demonstrating growth on the missed skills, or they may require students to go back through the homework and pick out the questions related to the skills they missed. This not only requires students to reflect on mistakes, but it also reinforces the value of homework for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, after the retake, teachers should enter the best score in the grade book, not an average. To Feldman’s thinking, students shouldn’t be penalized for putting in the extra work to understand the concepts. If they show they know it, they should get credit. And Feldman has a response for teachers who say that students need to learn to meet deadlines and pass tests the first time -- very few measures of adult learning are one-and-done. People can retake their driver’s tests, their teacher licensing exams, their SATs and MCATs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a world of high stakes tests, the discrete skill of test taking may be worth teaching students individually to make sure they know how to face the exams when they come. But Feldman would prefer teachers were honest with students about test-taking as a skill, as opposed to rolling it into the course grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman also doesn’t think behavioral things should be included in the grade because they don’t reflect mastery of content. That doesn’t mean a teacher can’t keep track of things like on-time work, organization, or other scholarly behaviors. Perhaps after the next test the teacher can then sit down the student and point out the relationship between some of those tracked behaviors and a poor test performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It opens up a much wider range of conversations teachers have about the purpose of behaviors and their relation to academic success,” Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also doesn’t think teachers should give grades for group work. It’s too hard to determine if the individuals have mastered the content in those settings. That doesn’t mean group work isn’t valuable, it just means the assessments should be individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people to collaborate well because when you collaborate well you make a better product and there’s a great reward to doing that work,” Feldman said. “We think it will increase their individual learning. The only way to know if they were effective in their group work is to see if they improved in their individual learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This also prevents one or two students in a group from doing all the work. And, it reflects the inherent value of skills like collaboration and communication because when used on a group project they lead to success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certain strategies that have been used year after year that are just a barnacle on the ship,” Feldman said. “Teachers feel they just have to do it.” And often the systems within a school building make it hard to break free. The 0-100 scale, for example, is the default setting on many high school online grade books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman hates this scale for many reasons, but the biggest one is the \u003ca href=\"https://crescendoedgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/caseagainstzero.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destructive power of a “zero” for missing work\u003c/a>. He contends the scale is weighted towards failure because 0-60 represents failing, whereas there are only 10 points between every other grade delineation. And if a student gets a zero on an assignment, it’s almost impossible to climb out of the hole that creates in their grade. Many students just give up. They know it’s mathematically impossible to pass after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tweak would be a 50-100 scale, although Feldman understands that psychologically it’s hard to give a 50 to a student who did nothing. That’s why he prefers a 0-4 scale, with none of the nit-picking over a few points to get from a B+ to an A-. Students either meet the requirements for proficiency or they don’t. They exceed the requirements or they don’t. Feldman sees the gradations in-between as unnecessary and leftover from a points-based system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he doesn't disagree with all of Feldman's points, \u003ca href=\"http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~ehutt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethan Hutt\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of teaching and learning, policy and leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park, worries that taking process out of student grades sends the wrong message. He contends students do need to learn to be conscientious, responsible, hard working and to seek help. In his classes, those are the students that succeed. Homework and other incremental assignments build those skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The foolish thing is to teach students that the only thing that matters is the disembodied work product,\" he said. He thinks it's silly to expect teachers to separate the work from everything else they know about that student. And on a broader scale, he wonders if learning to \"play the game\" is such a bad skill to teach. Much of life is about learning to navigate bureaucracy and hierarchies, so why shouldn't students start learning to do that in school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Putting It Into Practice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t feel good about what I was doing when I was assigning grades, so I was very much ready for something like this,” said Sarah Schopfer, a 10th grade English teacher at \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/a/puhsd.k12.ca.us/colfax/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colfax High School\u003c/a> in Placer County, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knew her grades were subjective, but didn’t know how to change them. She noticed that a lot of her grading was based on participation, and the same handful of kids always participated. Those were also the kids who would do whatever she asked of them. But she knew there were other kids who wouldn’t “play the game,” and whose grades didn’t reflect what they could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that would show them failing,” she said. “And then they think they’re stupid and they’re not. They just do things differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She admits changing how she grades was hard at first. She was uncomfortable with the 0-4 scale and had to change how she teaches to focus more on building relationships with students, as well as helping them find intrinsic motivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It completely rocks your world and that’s why some teachers don’t,\" she said. \"I can see the hesitation.\" But still, Schopfer said shifting her grading practices is the best -- and hardest -- thing she’s ever done in teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest changes that I felt comfortable doing right away were that we don’t put things in the grade book that are behavior related,” Schopfer said. If kids are late, acting out in class, or not participating it doesn’t go into their grade anymore. “I know that scares the hell out of teachers because they’re like, how do I get them to turn things in on time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This question forced Schopfer to sit down and look at her assignments closely. Some projects were fun and glittery, but didn’t align with the standards as well as she thought, so she jettisoned them. Now she focuses on making the rubrics clear and transparent. She wants her assessments to be accurate. And she promised her students she won’t give them busywork, a commitment she takes seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I manage my class with relationships,” Schopfer said. “They have to trust you. They have to respect you. They have to want to do things for you because you've shown them that the things you ask them to do are important and matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says students still turn things in on time, but when they can’t for some reason, they apologize to her and let her know when they will be able to get the work in. She doesn’t have as many students sitting in class who think they’re bad at English. They have opportunities to redo things, to learn from their mistakes, and that’s motivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately to me there’s no question. It’s an ethical issue,” Schopfer said. “Now that I know this I can’t go back. It’s not equitable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she asked students what they think of the new grading system, here’s what she heard:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"It makes sense. All assignments add up and relate to learning overall. You have to do the work to be able to do the next step. You have a clear purpose for us, and the grade is just a side aspect.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"You realize that we are people. We have crazy home lives, or some of us do. This makes my life less stressful, and they are accurate. I'm learning.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"You are treating us like adults, but with a cushion.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"The old grading methods are straight hypocritical and don't make sense when you think about it.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Sigmon has also asked his students about their perspectives on his new grading system. He was shocked by how clearly students see through traditional grading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”Students are very much aware that school is a game and that your grades aren’t based on how well you understand something, but on how well you play the game,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he surveyed his students, many thanked him for moving to a more transparent form of grading, one that forced them to be responsible for their work, but in a clear, transparent way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sigmon has also found that changing how he grades has created a shift in his teaching by giving him a more clearly defined goal. \"Now that I have established what my grades mean and what they’re based on then everything works backwards from there,\" he said. \"I know what students need to be able to show, what they need to be able to do. So I had to rethink everything to make that the focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Sigmon has stopped doing the typical “I do, we do, you do” formula for a new concept. He realized that perpetuated memorizing a procedure, not deep understanding, especially when all the practice problems are a clear imitation of the test questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s changed the kinds of questions I ask,” Sigmon said. “I try to always ask questions the students have not seen. It’s the same concept, but being applied in a new way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Joe Feldman wasn’t sure these practices would work when he first started developing them, so he invested in \u003ca href=\"https://crescendoedgroup.org/results/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">external evaluation\u003c/a> of grade distribution among teachers who were changing their grading practices. The results from independent evaluator Leading Edge Advisors showed that the rates of D's and F's went down, but the number of A's also went down. One immediate response to this might be that teachers lowered their expectations, but Feldman says grading this way actually made it harder to do well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decreases in D's and F's were clustered among Latinx, African-American, low-income, and students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Meanwhile the decrease in A's mostly affected white students. “It reflects how the current system has been benefiting and punishing certain students disproportionately,” Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also wanted to test the accuracy of grades in this new system. He found that when teachers graded with his proposed equity strategies student course grades more closely correlated to their standardized test scores, indicating that the teacher’s assessment that a student mastered a standard was aligned with that same demonstration on the tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this is strong proof for Feldman that it’s important to have conversations about grading with teachers. He knows teacher experiences will drive change -- they must have opportunities to try out strategies and see the effects themselves -- but district leaders also have to provide the tailwind for this to become a reality. And that’s where he sees the biggest challenge to this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[District leaders] know it’s going to require a lot of relationship building with teachers and parents. And some aren’t really sure it’s worth it,” Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the second article in a two-part series about equitable grading practices. The first article sets up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52679/why-its-crucial-and-really-hard-to-talk-about-more-equitable-grading\">some of the challenges\u003c/a>. Read an excerpt from Joe Feldman's book \"\u003ca href=\"https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/grading-for-equity/book258205\">Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms\u003c/a>\" to learn one principal's journey in recognizing how inequitable grading was affecting her students.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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If a student can display their knowledge of those standards without doing the homework, he shouldn’t be penalized for that in his grade, especially because students all have different responsibilities outside of school that can make getting homework done difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Sigmon did was think carefully about what it means to show mastery of each standard the state expects him to teach. He asked himself, “What can I expect high school students to do with this content?” That became the qualification for a B grade. To get an A students had to go beyond that. Earning a C meant the student was close to understanding, but not quite there. Getting a D would be very little understanding, and an F would be almost no understanding at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels biased and subjective and that’s because it is,” Sigmon said. “I have to kind of trust myself as the professional to judge their understanding of a certain concept. That's a tough adjustment to make.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sigmon doesn’t grade by assignment anymore; he grades by standard. That means he’s not assessing things like lab work, classwork or homework anymore. “Those things are all practice,” Sigmon said, although important practice. He only wants to include information that directly relates to their ultimate understanding of the standards in their grade, which he reasons, is supposed to reflect what they know at the end of his course, not how compliant they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.middleweb.com/39402/homework-grading-late-work-oh-my/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Like many teachers\u003c/a> who hear about this style of grading, Sigmon was worried students wouldn’t do homework at all if points weren’t attached to it. And, in fact, he did see a dip in homework completion at first. But, when students started to see their quiz and test grades drop because they weren’t doing homework, they made the connection pretty quickly. Now, Sigmon says his students' homework completion rate is higher than ever, and even better, they have no reason to copy each other’s homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really surprised because after students started failing the assessments they started realizing the only way to improve their grades was to improve their understanding,” Sigmon said. There are still a few kids who try to do as little as possible, but some will even email him for extra questions to get more practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grading and Equity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of \u003ca href=\"http://tguskey.com/wp-content/uploads/Grading-7-Standards-Based-Grading-Will-Improve-Education.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">standards-based grading approach \u003c/a>is a growing trend in some corners of education. It’s part of a push to make sure kids are actually mastering the information they’re supposed to learn, not just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/38533/how-deprogramming-kids-from-how-to-do-school-could-improve-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">playing a points game\u003c/a>. That reasoning is compelling to some teachers who are excited about shifting pedagogy, but Joe Feldman thinks he has an even more compelling reason that schools should start making a shift in how they grade -- equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman has worked in education a long time, first as a high school teacher, then a principal, and later as a central office administrator. He’s been around enough schools and classrooms to know that even when teachers have worked hard to align their curriculum and assessments in order to provide coherence for students, the experiences students have in each teacher’s class can be vastly different. That’s because each teacher grades differently, allotting a different percentage for tests, participation, homework, and even things like effort. Some teachers accept late work with no penalty, others allow students to do extra credit to make up work; some allow retakes on tests and quizzes, others don’t. For students, the result is a thicket of different rules that must be navigated each year or class period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more I really investigated and researched it, I found it wasn’t just an issue of consistency,” Feldman said, “it actually had implications for equity in schools. Many times the grading practices teachers use inadvertently punish students with fewer resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way Feldman sees it, \u003ca href=\"https://crescendoedgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/GradingtoCommunicate-Winger.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teachers use grades for much more\u003c/a> than indicating whether students have mastered the academic content. For example, teachers often deduct points for late work because they want students to respect deadlines and learn responsibility. Or, they know that engagement is important for learning, so they include participation as a portion of the grade. Grades, then, become a behavior management tool, a motivational tool, and sometimes an indication of mastery too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the common practice of averaging grades, for example. One student might come into class with no experience writing a persuasive essay. The first time he tries, he turns in a terrible essay and gets a low score. The next time he improves, and by the end of the semester he’s nailed it. But that student will always have a lower grade than the student who came into class knowing how to write a solid persuasive essay, perhaps because of a summer camp opportunity, and never progressed much further during the year. The second student will get a better average grade, even though she didn’t show growth in her writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really inaccurate to describe a students’ work like that,” Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, Feldman is not saying that teachers consciously develop inequitable grading systems. He knows from experience that the opposite is true. Many teachers go to great lengths to remove bias from the process, doing things like covering student names while grading. The trouble is that some long standing grading practices may be perpetuating bias anyway. Take student participation as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I grade on participation and I'm looking for: Are they looking at me? Are they taking notes? Are they not talking when I’m talking? They are descriptions of how that teacher learned,” Feldman said. “And they believe that if other students exhibit those qualities they’re more likely to learn.” But, he says, that’s subjective, which means a whole portion of a students’ grade could be filtered through a teachers’ unintentional bias towards the style of learning they prefer. The way to get rid of this potential bias in grading is not to reward participation in final grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This elicits a lot of different emotions form teachers,” Feldman said. “I’ve had them cry, yell at me, walk out of the room, write me off as some sort of nut. But as I work with teachers they’ll start to confront the idea that what they believe about students may not be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman understands this reaction from teachers. Education has become more top-down with mandates from the state and district level making teachers feel that their professional judgment is not valued. Grading practices are often the last bastion of autonomy a teacher has and independent grading is enshrined in many teacher contracts. When principals or districts try to suggest ways to make grading more equitable, they are often met with accusations that they are infringing on classroom autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman says the only way teachers come around to what he proposes is by looking at the data, deeply discussing the ideas, and trying some of his strategies in their own classrooms. That’s what convinces most of them to dig in and make changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strategies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One easy way to dip a toe into more equitable grading is to get rid of extra credit. Often these assignments are things like, go to a museum and submit a report, or write an extra essay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things depend on a student having the time, money, resources to be able to do those,” Feldman said. More importantly, they’re beyond the curriculum and shouldn’t be required for the student to understand the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another strategy Feldman recommends is requiring retakes if students score below a certain level. Right now, many students take a test, get a score and move on. The learning stops there. Feldman thinks a more equitable practice is to encourage students to learn from the errors they made on the test and take it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers have told me that when they suggest to students that they’re going to have to retake it there’s resistance from students, but they ultimately appreciate the teacher doing that and build a stronger relationship,” Feldman said. “There’s no clearer message that your teacher cares about you than that they won’t let you fail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And teachers can put parameters on retakes. They may say students can only retake after demonstrating growth on the missed skills, or they may require students to go back through the homework and pick out the questions related to the skills they missed. This not only requires students to reflect on mistakes, but it also reinforces the value of homework for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, after the retake, teachers should enter the best score in the grade book, not an average. To Feldman’s thinking, students shouldn’t be penalized for putting in the extra work to understand the concepts. If they show they know it, they should get credit. And Feldman has a response for teachers who say that students need to learn to meet deadlines and pass tests the first time -- very few measures of adult learning are one-and-done. People can retake their driver’s tests, their teacher licensing exams, their SATs and MCATs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a world of high stakes tests, the discrete skill of test taking may be worth teaching students individually to make sure they know how to face the exams when they come. But Feldman would prefer teachers were honest with students about test-taking as a skill, as opposed to rolling it into the course grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman also doesn’t think behavioral things should be included in the grade because they don’t reflect mastery of content. That doesn’t mean a teacher can’t keep track of things like on-time work, organization, or other scholarly behaviors. Perhaps after the next test the teacher can then sit down the student and point out the relationship between some of those tracked behaviors and a poor test performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It opens up a much wider range of conversations teachers have about the purpose of behaviors and their relation to academic success,” Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also doesn’t think teachers should give grades for group work. It’s too hard to determine if the individuals have mastered the content in those settings. That doesn’t mean group work isn’t valuable, it just means the assessments should be individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people to collaborate well because when you collaborate well you make a better product and there’s a great reward to doing that work,” Feldman said. “We think it will increase their individual learning. The only way to know if they were effective in their group work is to see if they improved in their individual learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This also prevents one or two students in a group from doing all the work. And, it reflects the inherent value of skills like collaboration and communication because when used on a group project they lead to success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certain strategies that have been used year after year that are just a barnacle on the ship,” Feldman said. “Teachers feel they just have to do it.” And often the systems within a school building make it hard to break free. The 0-100 scale, for example, is the default setting on many high school online grade books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman hates this scale for many reasons, but the biggest one is the \u003ca href=\"https://crescendoedgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/caseagainstzero.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destructive power of a “zero” for missing work\u003c/a>. He contends the scale is weighted towards failure because 0-60 represents failing, whereas there are only 10 points between every other grade delineation. And if a student gets a zero on an assignment, it’s almost impossible to climb out of the hole that creates in their grade. Many students just give up. They know it’s mathematically impossible to pass after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tweak would be a 50-100 scale, although Feldman understands that psychologically it’s hard to give a 50 to a student who did nothing. That’s why he prefers a 0-4 scale, with none of the nit-picking over a few points to get from a B+ to an A-. Students either meet the requirements for proficiency or they don’t. They exceed the requirements or they don’t. Feldman sees the gradations in-between as unnecessary and leftover from a points-based system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he doesn't disagree with all of Feldman's points, \u003ca href=\"http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~ehutt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethan Hutt\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of teaching and learning, policy and leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park, worries that taking process out of student grades sends the wrong message. He contends students do need to learn to be conscientious, responsible, hard working and to seek help. In his classes, those are the students that succeed. Homework and other incremental assignments build those skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The foolish thing is to teach students that the only thing that matters is the disembodied work product,\" he said. He thinks it's silly to expect teachers to separate the work from everything else they know about that student. And on a broader scale, he wonders if learning to \"play the game\" is such a bad skill to teach. Much of life is about learning to navigate bureaucracy and hierarchies, so why shouldn't students start learning to do that in school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Putting It Into Practice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t feel good about what I was doing when I was assigning grades, so I was very much ready for something like this,” said Sarah Schopfer, a 10th grade English teacher at \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/a/puhsd.k12.ca.us/colfax/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colfax High School\u003c/a> in Placer County, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knew her grades were subjective, but didn’t know how to change them. She noticed that a lot of her grading was based on participation, and the same handful of kids always participated. Those were also the kids who would do whatever she asked of them. But she knew there were other kids who wouldn’t “play the game,” and whose grades didn’t reflect what they could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that would show them failing,” she said. “And then they think they’re stupid and they’re not. They just do things differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She admits changing how she grades was hard at first. She was uncomfortable with the 0-4 scale and had to change how she teaches to focus more on building relationships with students, as well as helping them find intrinsic motivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It completely rocks your world and that’s why some teachers don’t,\" she said. \"I can see the hesitation.\" But still, Schopfer said shifting her grading practices is the best -- and hardest -- thing she’s ever done in teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest changes that I felt comfortable doing right away were that we don’t put things in the grade book that are behavior related,” Schopfer said. If kids are late, acting out in class, or not participating it doesn’t go into their grade anymore. “I know that scares the hell out of teachers because they’re like, how do I get them to turn things in on time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This question forced Schopfer to sit down and look at her assignments closely. Some projects were fun and glittery, but didn’t align with the standards as well as she thought, so she jettisoned them. Now she focuses on making the rubrics clear and transparent. She wants her assessments to be accurate. And she promised her students she won’t give them busywork, a commitment she takes seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I manage my class with relationships,” Schopfer said. “They have to trust you. They have to respect you. They have to want to do things for you because you've shown them that the things you ask them to do are important and matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says students still turn things in on time, but when they can’t for some reason, they apologize to her and let her know when they will be able to get the work in. She doesn’t have as many students sitting in class who think they’re bad at English. They have opportunities to redo things, to learn from their mistakes, and that’s motivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately to me there’s no question. It’s an ethical issue,” Schopfer said. “Now that I know this I can’t go back. It’s not equitable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she asked students what they think of the new grading system, here’s what she heard:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"It makes sense. All assignments add up and relate to learning overall. You have to do the work to be able to do the next step. You have a clear purpose for us, and the grade is just a side aspect.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"You realize that we are people. We have crazy home lives, or some of us do. This makes my life less stressful, and they are accurate. I'm learning.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"You are treating us like adults, but with a cushion.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"The old grading methods are straight hypocritical and don't make sense when you think about it.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Sigmon has also asked his students about their perspectives on his new grading system. He was shocked by how clearly students see through traditional grading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”Students are very much aware that school is a game and that your grades aren’t based on how well you understand something, but on how well you play the game,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he surveyed his students, many thanked him for moving to a more transparent form of grading, one that forced them to be responsible for their work, but in a clear, transparent way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sigmon has also found that changing how he grades has created a shift in his teaching by giving him a more clearly defined goal. \"Now that I have established what my grades mean and what they’re based on then everything works backwards from there,\" he said. \"I know what students need to be able to show, what they need to be able to do. So I had to rethink everything to make that the focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Sigmon has stopped doing the typical “I do, we do, you do” formula for a new concept. He realized that perpetuated memorizing a procedure, not deep understanding, especially when all the practice problems are a clear imitation of the test questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s changed the kinds of questions I ask,” Sigmon said. “I try to always ask questions the students have not seen. It’s the same concept, but being applied in a new way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Joe Feldman wasn’t sure these practices would work when he first started developing them, so he invested in \u003ca href=\"https://crescendoedgroup.org/results/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">external evaluation\u003c/a> of grade distribution among teachers who were changing their grading practices. The results from independent evaluator Leading Edge Advisors showed that the rates of D's and F's went down, but the number of A's also went down. One immediate response to this might be that teachers lowered their expectations, but Feldman says grading this way actually made it harder to do well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decreases in D's and F's were clustered among Latinx, African-American, low-income, and students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Meanwhile the decrease in A's mostly affected white students. “It reflects how the current system has been benefiting and punishing certain students disproportionately,” Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also wanted to test the accuracy of grades in this new system. He found that when teachers graded with his proposed equity strategies student course grades more closely correlated to their standardized test scores, indicating that the teacher’s assessment that a student mastered a standard was aligned with that same demonstration on the tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this is strong proof for Feldman that it’s important to have conversations about grading with teachers. He knows teacher experiences will drive change -- they must have opportunities to try out strategies and see the effects themselves -- but district leaders also have to provide the tailwind for this to become a reality. And that’s where he sees the biggest challenge to this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[District leaders] know it’s going to require a lot of relationship building with teachers and parents. And some aren’t really sure it’s worth it,” Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Prologue: Mallory's Dilemma\" excerpted from \u003ca href=\"https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/grading-for-equity/book258205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms\u003c/a> by Joe Feldman. Thousand Oaks, CA: \u003ca href=\"https://www.corwin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corwin\u003c/a>, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the first article in a two-part series about equitable grading practices. This article sets up some of the challenges. In part two, learn \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52813/how-teachers-are-changing-grading-practices-with-an-eye-on-equity\">how teachers are addressing this issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Joe Feldman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data couldn't be possible. Actually, it \u003cem>shouldn't\u003c/em> be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallory had just completed her first year as principal of Centennial College Prep Middle School, a new public charter school in Huntington Park, California. As a young, white woman leading a school that served nearly all Latino students, many living below the poverty line, Mallory had approached her job humbly, not immediately pushing initiatives and changing policies to align to her own personal vision (what she called the “new sheriff in town approach”). Instead, her priority was to first understand her school community: its context, history, strengths, and needs. She had watched, listened, and built relationships with her faculty, students, and their families. She had visited classrooms, reviewed teachers’ lesson plans, and studied the school’s statistics: attendance percentages, disciplinary referrals, and test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the data she reviewed was “hard” data like test scores or “soft” data like her observations of teacher-student dynamics in classrooms, Mallory kept a sharp lookout for how the school could be made more equitable. Mallory’s vision was that students should have equal opportunities for success regardless of their ethnicity, first language, gender, income, or special needs. She paid attention to patterns of unequal achievement or opportunity in her school. For example, were boys being referred more frequently to the office? Were poorer students showing a common weakness on a strand of skills on the writing assessment? Did students who received special education services have a higher rate of absenteeism?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that wasn’t all. To Mallory, one of the most important indications of a high quality, equitable school is that students are successful regardless of their teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One teacher’s students shouldn’t learn different material or be less prepared for the next grade than another teacher’s students. Fortunately, based on her classroom visits and other data, Mallory found that although teachers approached their work in ways that reflected their individual backgrounds and personalities, students’ learning experiences were generally consistent across classrooms. Students in the same course taught by two different teachers—such as Ms. Thompson’s and Ms. Richardson’s sixth-grade English classes—were learning the same skills, reading the same books and essays, getting the same homework, receiving similar support, and taking the same tests. Mallory was confident that regardless of their sixth-grade teacher, students would be similarly prepared for seventh-grade English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since teachers were aligned with what and how they were teaching, and because the school didn’t track students or create unbalanced classes where one sixth-grade English class would be stronger than the others, Mallory reasoned that by all accounts the performance of students should be comparable across teachers of the same course. In other words, the rate of As, Bs, Cs, Ds, and Fs in any course should be relatively similar for each teacher of that course. But that wasn’t happening. Strange things were showing up in the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, her school's sixth-grade math and English classes, each taught by three different teachers:\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable style=\"width: 100%\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003cth>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/Math-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"387\">\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/English-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"399\">\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>If you were a student in two of the three teachers’ math classes you had about a 20 percent chance of getting a D or F, but if you were in the third teacher’s math class, you had 0 percent chance of getting a D or F. In the English classes, taught by three different teachers including Ms. Richardson and Ms.Thompson, the range of D and F rates—4 percent, 22 percent, and 35 percent—was even more dramatic. Mallory double-checked the grade data, then double-checked that students in the classes weren’t significantly different—in other words, one teacher’s students as a group didn’t have lower standardized test scores or higher rates of absences. No, the groups of students were similar; the only difference among the classes seemed to be the chances of receiving a particular grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallory put on her detective hat and considered, investigated, and then rejected several explanations: No substantive differences in instruction. Teachers were using the same curriculum with the same tests and even scored those tests as a team to ensure fairness and uniform evaluation. Mallory scoured students’ previous test scores and grades, with no indication of drastically different profiles of the classes as a whole. No substantive difference in the classroom physically—it wasn’t as if one classroom had a broken thermostat or was closer to a noisy playground. What was even odder was that students with identical standardized test scores received different grades depending on their teacher. The teachers were teaching similarly, the students were demonstrating similar achievement, but the grades showed inconsistency. This data seemed unexplainable, impossible, and grossly inequitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a lark, Mallory looked at the syllabus for each class—each teacher of a course had created her own personalized version—and it shocked her. Each teacher’s syllabus began with a similar introduction to the course content and description of important materials for the class, but then it was as if each teacher was in an entirely different school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One teacher accepted no homework after the attendance bell rang, some deducted points if homework was late (although the amount deducted ranged from a few points to two letter grades’ worth), and another accepted work beyond the due date up until the end of the quarter, with no penalty.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One teacher gave each daily homework assignment a grade of 10 percent or 100 percent based on how much of the homework was completed and correct, and allowed students who had received 10 percent up to one week to correct mistakes. Another gave full credit for an assignment if the student showed effort to complete it, regardless of whether answers were correct.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One teacher reduced points on an assignment if the student didn’t completely and correctly write her or his first and last name, along with the title of the assignment. Another subtracted points if an assignment was submitted on notebook paper that had ripped holes or ripped edges.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Most teachers organized their gradebook by grouping types of assignments into categories (Homework, Classwork, Tests, etc.), and weighted each category to denote its importance (Homework = 30% of the grade; Tests = 70%). However, no teacher had the same weightings for any categories. For example, the weight of tests ranged from 40 percent to 70 percent of a student’s grade.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some teachers had only three categories of assignments (Tests, Classwork, and Homework), while others included categories that seemed more subjective, such as Citizenship, Participation, and Effort. There was no explanation in the syllabus of how these subjective categories were calculated or on what they were based.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Other teachers didn't use percentage weights at all, but assigned different point values to different assignments. For example, Homework assignments might be 5 to 10 points each, with tests worth 100 points.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Teachers' different grading policies made it possible for two students with the same academic performance to receive different grades. What particularly confused and concerned Mallory was that some teachers were grading students on criteria that seemed to have nothing to do with their academic achievement -- such as whether their paper had intact holes or had the proper heading -- and others were basing parts of students’ grades entirely on subjective criteria, such as effort, that were susceptible to teachers’ implicit biases. This grade data that couldn’t be possible suddenly was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Grading-Equity-Matters-Transform-Classrooms/dp/1506391575\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-52685\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/feldman_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/feldman_cover.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/feldman_cover-160x229.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/feldman_cover-240x343.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, something happened that changed Mallory’s confusion to concern. Maria, a shy but earnest eighth grader, came to her office nearly in tears. Last year as a seventh grader, she had received a B in math, her most challenging subject, but this year was barely passing with a D. What was really frustrating Maria was that even though she often handed in homework assignments late or incomplete -- she had after-school responsibilities at home in addition to dance class three times a week -- she consistently performed well on every exam. She obviously had learned the math and had shown it when it mattered most, and though last year this type of performance had earned her a B, her teacher this year gave zeros for late or incomplete homework, resulting in her D. Maria was feeling a crisis of confidence: Other students copied to get their homework in on time for the homework points, which Maria had resisted, but would she have no other choice? Had last year’s teacher lied to her about her math skills? Was she not as good at math as she thought? Or was this year's teacher out to get her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mallory, no longer were her teachers’ inconsistent policies a theoretical dilemma. The school had spent months of planning and coordination to make sure teachers in the math department were using sequenced curriculum and that each teacher was preparing students to be ready for the next year -- called \"vertical alignment.\" Yet teachers’ different approaches to grading was undermining all of it, sending confusing messages about learning and impacting students’ grades and promotion rates, their beliefs about school, and even their self-image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallory had to talk to her teachers about what was happening. The prior year, she had broached many conversations -- some quite difficult and uncomfortable -- with her teachers about curriculum, teaching strategies, job responsibilities, even evaluation. Surely, she assumed, they would be as astonished as she was when they saw the data and would reconsider how they graded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now came her second shock: When she began a discussion of grades with her teachers, it was like poking a hornet’s nest. Nothing prepared her for the volatility of conversations about teachers’ grading practices. Many of her teachers, previously open to exploring new ideas about nearly every aspect of their work, reacted with defensiveness and adamant justification. Teachers with higher failure rates argued proudly that their grading reflected higher standards, that they were the \"real teachers.\" A teacher with low failure rates explained that he was the only teacher who cared enough to give students retakes and second chances. One teacher simply refused to discuss the topic, citing her state’s Education Code that protected teachers from administrators’ pressure to change or overwrite grades. One teacher began to cry, confessing that she had never received any training or support on how to grade and feared that she was grading students unfairly. Conversations about grading weren’t like conversations about classroom management or assessment design, which teachers approached with openness and in deference to research. Instead, teachers talked about grading in a language of morals about the “real world” beliefs about students; grading seemed to tap directly into the deepest sense of who teachers were in their classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she talked about these grading problems with principals of other schools, Mallory was surprised and dismayed to learn that grading varied by teacher in every school. This phenomenon was widespread, even the norm. Teachers thoughtfully and intentionally were creating policies that they believed, in their most thoughtful professional judgment, would promote learning. Yet they were doing so independently and often contradicting each other, yielding in each school a patchwork of well-intentioned but ultimately idiosyncratic approaches to evaluating and reporting student performance. Even when a department or a group of teachers made agreements -- for example, to have homework count for no more than 40 percent of a grade -- teachers' other unique policies and practices, such as whether homework would be accepted after the due date, made their attempts at consistency seem halfhearted and ineffectual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, even though every principal had the same problems and frustrations with inconsistent grading, no one had any success in addressing it. Other principals had tried to raise the topic of grading and had met the same kind of resistance Mallory had experienced, sometimes even with vitriol and formal allegations of attempted infringement upon teachers' academic freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallory wondered: Was inconsistent grading an unavoidable part of schools, like the annoying bells between classes, the complaints about cafeteria food, the awkward physical education outfits, and weak turnout at Open House? Was it an inevitable side effect of teacher creativity, ownership, and initiative? Were teachers' different ways of evaluating and reporting student performance a hallmark of teachers’ professionalism or an undermining of that professionalism? And did principals’ avoidance of addressing the variance and inconsistency of grading represent support of their teachers, a détente between teachers and administrators, or an unspoken compromise that ignored the damaging impact on children, particularly those who are most vulnerable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This excerpt is the first in a two-part series about equitable grading practices. This article set up some of the challenges to changing grading practices. In part two, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52813/how-teachers-are-changing-grading-practices-with-an-eye-on-equity\">learn how teachers are addressing this issue.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_52698\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-52698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/Joe_Feldman-0014RT2-e1544573282656.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Feldman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joe Feldman has worked in education for over 20 years in both charter and district school contexts, as a teacher, principal, and district administrator. He is currently the CEO of Crescendo Education Group, which partners with school and districts to help teachers use improved and more equitable grading and assessment practices. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Prologue: Mallory's Dilemma\" excerpted from \u003ca href=\"https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/grading-for-equity/book258205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms\u003c/a> by Joe Feldman. Thousand Oaks, CA: \u003ca href=\"https://www.corwin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corwin\u003c/a>, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the first article in a two-part series about equitable grading practices. This article sets up some of the challenges. In part two, learn \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52813/how-teachers-are-changing-grading-practices-with-an-eye-on-equity\">how teachers are addressing this issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Joe Feldman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data couldn't be possible. Actually, it \u003cem>shouldn't\u003c/em> be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallory had just completed her first year as principal of Centennial College Prep Middle School, a new public charter school in Huntington Park, California. As a young, white woman leading a school that served nearly all Latino students, many living below the poverty line, Mallory had approached her job humbly, not immediately pushing initiatives and changing policies to align to her own personal vision (what she called the “new sheriff in town approach”). Instead, her priority was to first understand her school community: its context, history, strengths, and needs. She had watched, listened, and built relationships with her faculty, students, and their families. She had visited classrooms, reviewed teachers’ lesson plans, and studied the school’s statistics: attendance percentages, disciplinary referrals, and test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the data she reviewed was “hard” data like test scores or “soft” data like her observations of teacher-student dynamics in classrooms, Mallory kept a sharp lookout for how the school could be made more equitable. Mallory’s vision was that students should have equal opportunities for success regardless of their ethnicity, first language, gender, income, or special needs. She paid attention to patterns of unequal achievement or opportunity in her school. For example, were boys being referred more frequently to the office? Were poorer students showing a common weakness on a strand of skills on the writing assessment? Did students who received special education services have a higher rate of absenteeism?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that wasn’t all. To Mallory, one of the most important indications of a high quality, equitable school is that students are successful regardless of their teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One teacher’s students shouldn’t learn different material or be less prepared for the next grade than another teacher’s students. Fortunately, based on her classroom visits and other data, Mallory found that although teachers approached their work in ways that reflected their individual backgrounds and personalities, students’ learning experiences were generally consistent across classrooms. Students in the same course taught by two different teachers—such as Ms. Thompson’s and Ms. Richardson’s sixth-grade English classes—were learning the same skills, reading the same books and essays, getting the same homework, receiving similar support, and taking the same tests. Mallory was confident that regardless of their sixth-grade teacher, students would be similarly prepared for seventh-grade English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since teachers were aligned with what and how they were teaching, and because the school didn’t track students or create unbalanced classes where one sixth-grade English class would be stronger than the others, Mallory reasoned that by all accounts the performance of students should be comparable across teachers of the same course. In other words, the rate of As, Bs, Cs, Ds, and Fs in any course should be relatively similar for each teacher of that course. But that wasn’t happening. Strange things were showing up in the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, her school's sixth-grade math and English classes, each taught by three different teachers:\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable style=\"width: 100%\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003cth>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/Math-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"387\">\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/English-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"399\">\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>If you were a student in two of the three teachers’ math classes you had about a 20 percent chance of getting a D or F, but if you were in the third teacher’s math class, you had 0 percent chance of getting a D or F. In the English classes, taught by three different teachers including Ms. Richardson and Ms.Thompson, the range of D and F rates—4 percent, 22 percent, and 35 percent—was even more dramatic. Mallory double-checked the grade data, then double-checked that students in the classes weren’t significantly different—in other words, one teacher’s students as a group didn’t have lower standardized test scores or higher rates of absences. No, the groups of students were similar; the only difference among the classes seemed to be the chances of receiving a particular grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallory put on her detective hat and considered, investigated, and then rejected several explanations: No substantive differences in instruction. Teachers were using the same curriculum with the same tests and even scored those tests as a team to ensure fairness and uniform evaluation. Mallory scoured students’ previous test scores and grades, with no indication of drastically different profiles of the classes as a whole. No substantive difference in the classroom physically—it wasn’t as if one classroom had a broken thermostat or was closer to a noisy playground. What was even odder was that students with identical standardized test scores received different grades depending on their teacher. The teachers were teaching similarly, the students were demonstrating similar achievement, but the grades showed inconsistency. This data seemed unexplainable, impossible, and grossly inequitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a lark, Mallory looked at the syllabus for each class—each teacher of a course had created her own personalized version—and it shocked her. Each teacher’s syllabus began with a similar introduction to the course content and description of important materials for the class, but then it was as if each teacher was in an entirely different school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One teacher accepted no homework after the attendance bell rang, some deducted points if homework was late (although the amount deducted ranged from a few points to two letter grades’ worth), and another accepted work beyond the due date up until the end of the quarter, with no penalty.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One teacher gave each daily homework assignment a grade of 10 percent or 100 percent based on how much of the homework was completed and correct, and allowed students who had received 10 percent up to one week to correct mistakes. Another gave full credit for an assignment if the student showed effort to complete it, regardless of whether answers were correct.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One teacher reduced points on an assignment if the student didn’t completely and correctly write her or his first and last name, along with the title of the assignment. Another subtracted points if an assignment was submitted on notebook paper that had ripped holes or ripped edges.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Most teachers organized their gradebook by grouping types of assignments into categories (Homework, Classwork, Tests, etc.), and weighted each category to denote its importance (Homework = 30% of the grade; Tests = 70%). However, no teacher had the same weightings for any categories. For example, the weight of tests ranged from 40 percent to 70 percent of a student’s grade.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some teachers had only three categories of assignments (Tests, Classwork, and Homework), while others included categories that seemed more subjective, such as Citizenship, Participation, and Effort. There was no explanation in the syllabus of how these subjective categories were calculated or on what they were based.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Other teachers didn't use percentage weights at all, but assigned different point values to different assignments. For example, Homework assignments might be 5 to 10 points each, with tests worth 100 points.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Teachers' different grading policies made it possible for two students with the same academic performance to receive different grades. What particularly confused and concerned Mallory was that some teachers were grading students on criteria that seemed to have nothing to do with their academic achievement -- such as whether their paper had intact holes or had the proper heading -- and others were basing parts of students’ grades entirely on subjective criteria, such as effort, that were susceptible to teachers’ implicit biases. This grade data that couldn’t be possible suddenly was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Grading-Equity-Matters-Transform-Classrooms/dp/1506391575\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-52685\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/feldman_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/feldman_cover.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/feldman_cover-160x229.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/feldman_cover-240x343.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, something happened that changed Mallory’s confusion to concern. Maria, a shy but earnest eighth grader, came to her office nearly in tears. Last year as a seventh grader, she had received a B in math, her most challenging subject, but this year was barely passing with a D. What was really frustrating Maria was that even though she often handed in homework assignments late or incomplete -- she had after-school responsibilities at home in addition to dance class three times a week -- she consistently performed well on every exam. She obviously had learned the math and had shown it when it mattered most, and though last year this type of performance had earned her a B, her teacher this year gave zeros for late or incomplete homework, resulting in her D. Maria was feeling a crisis of confidence: Other students copied to get their homework in on time for the homework points, which Maria had resisted, but would she have no other choice? Had last year’s teacher lied to her about her math skills? Was she not as good at math as she thought? Or was this year's teacher out to get her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mallory, no longer were her teachers’ inconsistent policies a theoretical dilemma. The school had spent months of planning and coordination to make sure teachers in the math department were using sequenced curriculum and that each teacher was preparing students to be ready for the next year -- called \"vertical alignment.\" Yet teachers’ different approaches to grading was undermining all of it, sending confusing messages about learning and impacting students’ grades and promotion rates, their beliefs about school, and even their self-image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallory had to talk to her teachers about what was happening. The prior year, she had broached many conversations -- some quite difficult and uncomfortable -- with her teachers about curriculum, teaching strategies, job responsibilities, even evaluation. Surely, she assumed, they would be as astonished as she was when they saw the data and would reconsider how they graded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now came her second shock: When she began a discussion of grades with her teachers, it was like poking a hornet’s nest. Nothing prepared her for the volatility of conversations about teachers’ grading practices. Many of her teachers, previously open to exploring new ideas about nearly every aspect of their work, reacted with defensiveness and adamant justification. Teachers with higher failure rates argued proudly that their grading reflected higher standards, that they were the \"real teachers.\" A teacher with low failure rates explained that he was the only teacher who cared enough to give students retakes and second chances. One teacher simply refused to discuss the topic, citing her state’s Education Code that protected teachers from administrators’ pressure to change or overwrite grades. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Vicky Tong started coaching seventh- and eighth-grade cross-country in 2012, she took the job because the school where she teaches needed somebody to do it. Tong figured that this additional work would follow naturally from her duties as a middle school science and Chinese teacher and complement her interest in running. She was training for a half-marathon when the offer arrived, and the timing seemed right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, six years later, she looks back on her earlier reasoning with amusement. “If you go into coaching and think it’s like the classroom, you’re wrong—it’s very different,” she said. Further, technical knowledge of the sport—in her case, running—was essential but far less critical for success than other skills, she added. Her experience in the classroom made her a better coach, and what she has learned working alongside athletes has improved her teaching skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to know how many teachers are coaches and coaches are teachers, said Dan Schuster, director of coach education at the \u003ca href=\"https://nfhslearn.com/home/coaches\">National Federation of High Schools\u003c/a>; the data don’t exist. But he believes that the greater demands on coaches’ time and the shrinking of the off-season mean that fewer teachers coach multiple sports throughout the school year. Pressure from parents and clubs to focus more on “the X’s and O’s” has forced a change. “Years ago, if you were teaching, you’d coach a team,” he said. “It’s not that culture anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparent drop in teacher-coaches marks a decline in the important insights that these two-hatted adults bring to the student-athletes in front of them. Interviews with several experienced teacher-coaches reveal what each could learn from the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What teachers could learn from coaches:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tie learning and teaching to a performance\u003c/strong>. “We as teachers have a lot to learn from coaches,” said Jeff Gilbert, a former teacher and coach and now principal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.smuhsd.org/hillsdalehigh\">Hillsdale High School\u003c/a> in San Mateo, California. Most important, student learning would improve if teachers included more public performances in their instruction, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In sports, players practice their skills in order to play the game better, and coaches modify what and how they train based on the athletes’ performance. Students in the classroom would benefit from similar high-stakes public performances, where they demonstrate what they’ve learned. In this way, the learning has a purpose, the same as throwing and catching drills in baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning grounded in performance also allows teachers to give students constant feedback, like a coach who tweaks a player’s stance or swing. Though it’s more difficult for teachers to assess how well students are learning—unlike coaches, who can see immediately whether what they’ve taught has stuck—projects that include performances give more opportunities for immediate feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at Hillsdale High School are required each year to participate in learning events that include such public pieces. Sophomores, for example, must take part in the “Golding Trial,” where they assume various roles in a libel “trial” of William Golding, author of \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em>. They read the book, study the law and eventually travel to local courthouses to plead their cases. These kinds of learning performances keep education from being all practice and no games, Gilbert said, and allow teachers to give regular feedback while the kids prepare. It also makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/45201/why-emotions-are-integral-to-learning\">learning more emotional\u003c/a> and can change the way a teenager thinks about herself as a student. “If we do it right, you’ll have students talking about these school performances the way they do about the big moments in sports, with the same fondness,” Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Give more feedback\u003c/strong>. Whether tied to a performance or more day-to-day schoolwork, feedback helps kids learn. “It’s the biggest thing that I’ve taken away from coaching and applied to the classroom,” Tong said. Having observed how athletes benefit from her up-to-the-minute response to their play, she strives to offer more timely feedback to the kids in her classroom. In a class discussion, for example, she will respond to a child’s remark, no matter its accuracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always say some type of personal feedback before moving forward, like ‘nice analytical skills,' or ‘I like the way you made a connection, but let's focus on X,’ \" Tong said. The feedback makes kids feel safe and more willing to speak up next time, even if they’re uncertain about their answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Build interdependence\u003c/strong>. A team thrives when everyone on it feels connected and valuable. Coaches work to build that unity. Such interdependence is often absent from classrooms, however, because each student’s academic success is largely independent of others. Learning that involves group performances, where every student plays a role and relies on others, can stir up similar feelings of connection. “When kids feel that they’re in this together, and they’re co-dependent—it’s really powerful,” Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It’s all about relationships\u003c/strong>. “My coaches wanted to know me on a personal level,” said Aly Carter, who played multiple sports in high school many years ago. But she barely remembers her teachers, because they never took the time to get to know her. Coaches also let her into their lives, Carter said, so that the relationship felt more authentic and balanced. Of course, coaches spend more time in the season with their players in varied settings than teachers; that “quantity time” makes room for natural give-and-take. But teachers who strive to get to know their pupils more personally will likely have a larger impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look for another side of a child\u003c/strong>. Teachers who work in the classroom can develop a jaundiced view of certain kids. A child who regularly disrupts, or who seems chronically unprepared, can discourage the most experienced teachers. Working with those same kids in an athletic context allows teachers to see them more fully. “I can’t judge a kid based on a science class, because on the field they’re a different person,” Tong said. “It’s a way to see another side of them, and it’s redeeming,” she added, recalling how a timid student in class behaved like a bulldozer on the soccer field. Teachers who aren’t able to coach might get a different sense of a child if they watch her at a sporting event or dance recital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What coaches could learn from teachers\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay abreast of research in child development\u003c/strong>. Clark Meyer teaches eighth-grade English and coaches varsity girls’ soccer at \u003ca href=\"https://www.westminster.net/\">The Westminster Schools\u003c/a> in Atlanta. He’s done both jobs for 22 years, and believes that operating in two different spheres has widened his perspective on his players and students. What’s he’s picked up in the classroom about\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48139/why-teachers-should-help-students-learn-effective-study-strategies\"> brain-based learning\u003c/a>—a hot topic in education circles—he’s also applied to his team. “I’m interested in ‘cognitive soccer,’ ” Meyer said, before explaining how he puts his players in just-uncomfortable-enough tactical training situations to compel them to adapt and grow. From his deep understanding of child development, he also realizes that getting the message and culture right on the team is essential to a successful season. Mechanistic coaches without knowledge of how children develop, and who focus solely on tactics and strategy, miss what most teenagers crave: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50556/being-popular-why-it-consumes-teens-and-continues-to-affect-adults\">social connection.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Develop discreet skills and draw connections\u003c/strong>. Teachers often use structured lesson plans to teach specific skills. Trained in pedagogy, they will craft a particular lesson, explain what they’re teaching to the class, review what they went over at the end, and then prompt the students to practice. According to Gilbert, coaches often lack this essential teaching skill. “Coaches don’t connect the dots, about how the drills connect to the scrimmage, which then connects to the game,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ask, don’t tell\u003c/strong>. Coaches have abundant opportunities in practice and games to tell their players what to do—to move here when the opponent goes one way, to bend or turn or maneuver in some particular way in order to achieve a physical goal. But athletes learn more deeply when a coach asks them how they’ll handle different scenarios, inviting them to figure out for themselves what to do rather than wait to be instructed. In his book \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Positive-Coaching-Building-Character-Self-esteem/dp/0982131704\">\u003cem>Positive Coaching\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, then-Stanford \u003ca href=\"http://sportsenergygroup.com/sec/jim-thompson/\">professor Jim Thompson\u003c/a> argued that welcoming players to think for themselves, and then helping them learn from the outcome, promotes a longer-term engagement in the sport. Likewise, asking players on the bench or sidelines how they would handle an athletic situation keeps them thinking and involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Give up some control\u003c/strong>. Some of the most creative classroom teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47223/how-one-teacher-let-go-of-control-to-focus-on-student-centered-approaches\">structure\u003c/a> their classes so that students feel in control of their own learning. Coaches can do the same. Thompson offers this example: Rather than merely demonstrate a new skill and offer immediate feedback on a player’s attempt, a coach can demonstrate first and then pair up kids to practice together and critique one another. Similarly, rather than impose team goals from on high, a coach can encourage players to reflect on their own goals and work out a plan to achieve them. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tie learning and teaching to a performance\u003c/strong>. “We as teachers have a lot to learn from coaches,” said Jeff Gilbert, a former teacher and coach and now principal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.smuhsd.org/hillsdalehigh\">Hillsdale High School\u003c/a> in San Mateo, California. Most important, student learning would improve if teachers included more public performances in their instruction, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In sports, players practice their skills in order to play the game better, and coaches modify what and how they train based on the athletes’ performance. Students in the classroom would benefit from similar high-stakes public performances, where they demonstrate what they’ve learned. In this way, the learning has a purpose, the same as throwing and catching drills in baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning grounded in performance also allows teachers to give students constant feedback, like a coach who tweaks a player’s stance or swing. Though it’s more difficult for teachers to assess how well students are learning—unlike coaches, who can see immediately whether what they’ve taught has stuck—projects that include performances give more opportunities for immediate feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at Hillsdale High School are required each year to participate in learning events that include such public pieces. Sophomores, for example, must take part in the “Golding Trial,” where they assume various roles in a libel “trial” of William Golding, author of \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em>. They read the book, study the law and eventually travel to local courthouses to plead their cases. These kinds of learning performances keep education from being all practice and no games, Gilbert said, and allow teachers to give regular feedback while the kids prepare. It also makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/45201/why-emotions-are-integral-to-learning\">learning more emotional\u003c/a> and can change the way a teenager thinks about herself as a student. “If we do it right, you’ll have students talking about these school performances the way they do about the big moments in sports, with the same fondness,” Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Give more feedback\u003c/strong>. Whether tied to a performance or more day-to-day schoolwork, feedback helps kids learn. “It’s the biggest thing that I’ve taken away from coaching and applied to the classroom,” Tong said. Having observed how athletes benefit from her up-to-the-minute response to their play, she strives to offer more timely feedback to the kids in her classroom. In a class discussion, for example, she will respond to a child’s remark, no matter its accuracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always say some type of personal feedback before moving forward, like ‘nice analytical skills,' or ‘I like the way you made a connection, but let's focus on X,’ \" Tong said. The feedback makes kids feel safe and more willing to speak up next time, even if they’re uncertain about their answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Build interdependence\u003c/strong>. A team thrives when everyone on it feels connected and valuable. Coaches work to build that unity. Such interdependence is often absent from classrooms, however, because each student’s academic success is largely independent of others. Learning that involves group performances, where every student plays a role and relies on others, can stir up similar feelings of connection. “When kids feel that they’re in this together, and they’re co-dependent—it’s really powerful,” Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It’s all about relationships\u003c/strong>. “My coaches wanted to know me on a personal level,” said Aly Carter, who played multiple sports in high school many years ago. But she barely remembers her teachers, because they never took the time to get to know her. Coaches also let her into their lives, Carter said, so that the relationship felt more authentic and balanced. Of course, coaches spend more time in the season with their players in varied settings than teachers; that “quantity time” makes room for natural give-and-take. But teachers who strive to get to know their pupils more personally will likely have a larger impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look for another side of a child\u003c/strong>. Teachers who work in the classroom can develop a jaundiced view of certain kids. A child who regularly disrupts, or who seems chronically unprepared, can discourage the most experienced teachers. Working with those same kids in an athletic context allows teachers to see them more fully. “I can’t judge a kid based on a science class, because on the field they’re a different person,” Tong said. “It’s a way to see another side of them, and it’s redeeming,” she added, recalling how a timid student in class behaved like a bulldozer on the soccer field. Teachers who aren’t able to coach might get a different sense of a child if they watch her at a sporting event or dance recital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What coaches could learn from teachers\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay abreast of research in child development\u003c/strong>. Clark Meyer teaches eighth-grade English and coaches varsity girls’ soccer at \u003ca href=\"https://www.westminster.net/\">The Westminster Schools\u003c/a> in Atlanta. He’s done both jobs for 22 years, and believes that operating in two different spheres has widened his perspective on his players and students. What’s he’s picked up in the classroom about\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48139/why-teachers-should-help-students-learn-effective-study-strategies\"> brain-based learning\u003c/a>—a hot topic in education circles—he’s also applied to his team. “I’m interested in ‘cognitive soccer,’ ” Meyer said, before explaining how he puts his players in just-uncomfortable-enough tactical training situations to compel them to adapt and grow. From his deep understanding of child development, he also realizes that getting the message and culture right on the team is essential to a successful season. Mechanistic coaches without knowledge of how children develop, and who focus solely on tactics and strategy, miss what most teenagers crave: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50556/being-popular-why-it-consumes-teens-and-continues-to-affect-adults\">social connection.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Develop discreet skills and draw connections\u003c/strong>. Teachers often use structured lesson plans to teach specific skills. Trained in pedagogy, they will craft a particular lesson, explain what they’re teaching to the class, review what they went over at the end, and then prompt the students to practice. According to Gilbert, coaches often lack this essential teaching skill. “Coaches don’t connect the dots, about how the drills connect to the scrimmage, which then connects to the game,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ask, don’t tell\u003c/strong>. Coaches have abundant opportunities in practice and games to tell their players what to do—to move here when the opponent goes one way, to bend or turn or maneuver in some particular way in order to achieve a physical goal. But athletes learn more deeply when a coach asks them how they’ll handle different scenarios, inviting them to figure out for themselves what to do rather than wait to be instructed. In his book \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Positive-Coaching-Building-Character-Self-esteem/dp/0982131704\">\u003cem>Positive Coaching\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, then-Stanford \u003ca href=\"http://sportsenergygroup.com/sec/jim-thompson/\">professor Jim Thompson\u003c/a> argued that welcoming players to think for themselves, and then helping them learn from the outcome, promotes a longer-term engagement in the sport. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mindfulness is a fast growing trend both in the world generally and in schools. Teachers are turning to the practice as a simple way to restore \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/44405/what-changes-when-a-school-embraces-mindfulness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calm to the classroom\u003c/a>, help students find some quiet space, and build self-regulation skills. Some teachers say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/46150/why-teachers-say-practicing-mindfulness-is-transforming-the-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their personal mindfulness practice\u003c/a> has helped them respond more calmly to students and helps them keep perspective. But it’s also important to realize that some of the ways mindfulness is practiced -- sitting still, eyes closed, in silence -- can also be triggers for students who have experienced trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t about calming down,” said\u003ca href=\"https://samhimelstein.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Sam Himelstein\u003c/a>, a clinical psychologist, trainer and author who has spent most of his career working with incarcerated youth. “Calming down is great and it is a skill that youth can get better at. But if we’re talking about mindfulness, at its core, we are just talking about being present with whatever it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Himelstein has worked with teachers who get upset when students don’t want to engage in mindfulness a certain way -- perhaps they don’t want to close their eyes or won’t sit the recommended way. But none of those things are truly about mindfulness, Himelstein said. Forcing students to engage with the practice in prescribed ways may do more harm than good, especially if the student has experienced trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never want to force people to close their eyes,” he said. That alone can cause trauma for some kids. “The goal is not to turn people into meditation monks. It’s just about learning to turn inwards and practice self-awareness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Himelstein has a lot of empathy for the young people he works with because he was an angry kid. He got into trouble in his early teenage years for drugs, and was sent to juvenile hall seven times. He also spent a lot of time in group homes once released, and it was there that a skilled mentor put him in a leadership position and sparked a desire in Himelstein to do counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Himelstein was lucky that he got into trouble during middle school and was able to get back on track for high school. He was also lucky to be born into an affluent, white, two-parent home in Berkeley, California. His time in juvenile hall showed him what other kids his age were up against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the kids I work with it’s a real uphill battle when they come into the system at [ages] 15 to 16 because they just have so many high school credits to catch up on that it becomes overwhelming,” Himelstein said. “It’s so easy for them to get in the mindset that 'school isn’t for me' and turn that into a core belief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Himelstein explains mindfulness to young people he likes to use a metaphor coined by Larry Rosenberg the \u003ca href=\"https://centerforadolescentstudies.com/cultivating-the-lion-mind-a-mindfulness-metaphor-that-sticks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dog-mind versus the lion-mind\u003c/a>. If a human waves a bone in front of a dog, the dog will track that bone and chase it when it’s thrown. But wave a bone in front of a lion’s face and that lion might eat the human behind the bone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dog can’t see beyond the bone. If I control the bone, I control the dog’s reality,” Himelstein said. But the lion sees a broader picture. He sees the human behind the bone. “That ability to see the larger picture gives the lion more autonomy, more choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Himelstein then directs students to think of the bone as anger or anxiety. Reacting with the mind of a lion allows a person to say, “I’m angry right now,” and that little bit of metacognitive space between the person and the thought allows them to choose how to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much easier said than done, but that’s what mindfulness is,” Himelstein said. “It’s noticing what’s happening in the present moment with a non-reactive mind.” When he’s presenting to youths, he asks them: Who’s the king of the jungle? The lion. 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His time in juvenile hall showed him what other kids his age were up against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the kids I work with it’s a real uphill battle when they come into the system at [ages] 15 to 16 because they just have so many high school credits to catch up on that it becomes overwhelming,” Himelstein said. “It’s so easy for them to get in the mindset that 'school isn’t for me' and turn that into a core belief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Himelstein explains mindfulness to young people he likes to use a metaphor coined by Larry Rosenberg the \u003ca href=\"https://centerforadolescentstudies.com/cultivating-the-lion-mind-a-mindfulness-metaphor-that-sticks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dog-mind versus the lion-mind\u003c/a>. If a human waves a bone in front of a dog, the dog will track that bone and chase it when it’s thrown. But wave a bone in front of a lion’s face and that lion might eat the human behind the bone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dog can’t see beyond the bone. 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