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Six resources to support your school with redos, reassessment and relearning

Providing students with opportunities to reassess and relearn honors the fact that every teacher knows — students learn at different rates and paces. Reassessment is not a free-for-all and still requires students to demonstrate their learning by a teacher or school-directed deadline. If your school is seeking to implement reassessment with more consistency or fidelity, […]

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“PE Is More Than Playing Kick Ball the Entire Hour”: Using Standards-Based Grading to Elevate Physical Education’s Status Among Preservice Physical Educators

In this paper published in the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education with Dr. Scott McNamara, we examined how preservice physical educators conceptualize and intend to use standards-based grading (SBG) after receiving a 1-hr workshop on implementing SBG into a physical education setting. The SBG workshop positively influenced participants’ views of the importance of PE,

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Top 3 standards-based grading articles (2023)

Following the tradition of previous years here on the blog, it is time to sift through the list of published literature from the 2023 and highlight the top articles of the year. The following is a list of what I believe are the top three articles from 2023 (in alphabetical order by lead author’s last

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Moving beyond Initiative Fatigue through Establishing an “Avoid at All Costs” List

Some of the initiatives we experience in schools are imposed upon us by department of education requirements while others district and school leadership choose to embark upon. Regardless of the entity fueling initiatives in schools, many schools experience what Douglas Reeves calls initiative fatigue. “The Law of Initiative Fatigue states that when the number of initiatives increases

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Top 4 Standards-Based Grading Articles (2022)

As 2022 comes to a close, it time to sift through the list of published literature from the past twelve months. This year’s list is surprisingly short, but I will leave it up to readers to speculate why! Note to returning readers: Once again this year I chose not to include any articles that I authored or co-authored, and

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