Professional Resources for Current Projects

Feldman

Accurate and Equitable Grading National School Boards Association (2020)

Very brief high-level overview. “Former district administrator Joe Feldman explains how traditional grading systems perpetuate inequities while also offering school board leaders practical tips to move towards more equitable grading processes.”

Feldman

EdCast Grading for Equity Harvard (2019)

Podcast interview (transcript included)  with Joe Feldman.

“Encouraging teachers to reassess their grading practices and make the adjustments that can guide their students toward academic success.”

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Feldman

Chapter 1 Grading for Equity Corwin (2018)

First chapter of the Grading for Equity book. Gives overview, history and charge for grading for equity.

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Feldman

Webinar Grading for Equity Corwin (2018)

1 hour recorded webinar covers the history of grading and its impact on teaching and learning as well as more equitable grading practices. “Joe Feldman describes how grading practices that are accurate, bias-resistant, and motivational can reduce those gaps, improve learning for all students, minimize grade inflation, and become a lever for creating stronger teacher-student relationships and more caring classrooms.”

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Douglas Reeves, Lee Ann Jung, and Ken O’Connor

What’s Worth Fighting Against in Grading Educational Leadership (2017)

Four common grading practices can hurt students and erode instructional culture.

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Anthony Miller

Do No Harm: Flexible and Smart Grading Practices Edutopia (2016)

Describes strategies to help address concerns around redoes, zeroes, not grading homework, and more

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Kristina Doubet and Eric Carbaugh

The “Economics” of Grading ASCD (2020)

Five ways to improve communication - and symmetry -  in performance-based classrooms.

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Sarah McKibben interview with Cornelius Minor

Antiracist Grading Starts with You ASCD (2020) 

“Pernicious grading practices start out as pernicious pedagogy. I cannot

separate grading practices from pedagogy, and I cannot separate

pedagogy from the history of classism, sexism, racism, and ableism in the

United States.”

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Bryan Goodwin and Kris Rouleau

Grading to Encourage Relearning ACSD (2020)

Let’s use grading practices that reflect the science of learning.

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Lee Ann Jung

Does this Count? ASCD (2020)

“How do we move toward the goal of all students’ being engaged in learning, giving effort, and being conscientious about performance and deadlines without attaching grades to those behaviors? This is the million-dollar question

for improving grading practices.”

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