num_pages: 296
description: Joe Feldman shows us how we can use grading to help students become the leaders of their own learning and lift the veil on how to succeed. . . . This must-have book will help teachers learn to implement improved equity-focused grading for impact. --Zaretta Hammond Author of Culturally Responsive Teaching &amp; The Brain Crack open the grading conversation Here at lastand none too soonis a resource that delivers the research base tools and courage to tackle one of the most challenging and emotionally charged conversations in todays our inconsistent grading practices and the ways they can inadvertently perpetuate the achievement and opportunity gaps among our students. With Grading for Equity Joe Feldman cuts to the core of the conversation revealing how grading practices that are accurate bias-resistant and motivational will improve learning minimize grade inflation reduce failure rates and become a lever for creating stronger teacher-student relationships and more caring classrooms. Essential reading for schoolwide and individual book study or for student advocates Grading for Equity provides As Joe writes Grading practices are a mirror not just for students but for us as their teachers. Each one of us should start by asking What do my grading practices say about who I am and what I believe? Then lets make the choice to do things differently . . . with Grading for Equity as a dog-eared reference. 
language: English
title: Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
publisher: Corwin