Create classrooms where feedback and grades energize learning. Through evidence-based strategies that promote equity and trust, educators can inspire resilience and mastery, ensuring every student feels seen, supported, and capable.
Prioritize learning over point-collection and growth over compliance. This bundle equips teachers to replace grading biases, punitive zeros, and limited chances for revision with strategies that nurture student confidence and engagement.
Deliver high expectations with empathy. Provide feedback that inspires trust and encourages students to take risks, learn from mistakes, and grow without fear of failure.
Ensure grades represent what students have learned—not behavior, circumstances, or missed opportunities. Break free from outdated, punitive systems and adopt grading practices that reflect real progress.
Motivate students to embrace their own practice of revision and persistence. Turn assignments into opportunities to deepen understanding and pursue mastery.
Traditional grading and feedback systems can unintentionally leave students uncertain about their abilities. Approaches that invite curiosity and self-trust help students believe in themselves and view mistakes as opportunities to grow.
Feedback can shut learning down when unclear or dismissive of student potential. Constrained by inequitable scales, punitive zeros, and a lack of revision opportunities, grades often fail to reflect or promote true learning.
Use grading and feedback as a window to potential rather than a reflection of failure.
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School teams using these resources increased student perceptions of feedback for growth from 36% to 61% and reduced D/F rates on average by 18%!
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