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Imperfect Grades: Aligning Our Assessment Practices with Our Theoretical Beliefs

As educators, we must carefully consider what skills, strategies, and daily practices should count as evidence of literacy growth and what data sources allow us to best assess this. (Elementary)

Advocating for What Students Know

Advocating for What Students Know: Creating Culturally Responsive Assessment Practices for Linguistic EquityThis post shares the four pillars to taking an inquiry stance to advocate for what students know. (Elementary, Middle, Secondary, College)

What Do Standardized Assessments Measure?

As we emerge from the pandemic, we should take this time to reflect on what we learned about our students when standardized assessments were halted, to consider how we can use assessments to advocate for what students know. (Elementary, Middle, Secondary, College)

Ungrading to Build Equity and Trust in Our Classrooms

With ungrading, students who have been hurt the most by traditional grading practices are able to come into our classrooms knowing that they can trust our feedback, trust our words, to help them improve as writers.