Grades Questions Writing 
Catlin Tucker
MAY 10, 2016
At the start of this year, I wrote a blog titled “ Grading for Mastery and Redesigning My Gradebook ,” which detailed my desire to rethink assessment in my classroom. I was tired of students always asking me about points and grades, instead of asking me about how they could improve their skills.
Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 12, 2017
Over the last two years, I’ve moved further and further away from traditional grading. I’ve blogged about grading for mastery of skills instead of the accumulation of points and ditching my traditional grade book in favor of an ongoing assessment document. Grade Interviews. ” It’s a fair question.
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Catlin Tucker
DECEMBER 28, 2017
This year I have posted several blogs about grading and assessment. I encouraged teachers to stop taking grading home for two simple reasons: Grading in isolation robs us of the opportunity to have conversations with students as we assess their work and, ultimately, makes feedback one-sided and less effective.
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 17, 2017
Since January, I have not brought a single stack of digital papers home to grade! It’s not that my students aren’t writing. This paper took them about 3 weeks to write from the time they started their research to when they finished their final draft and works cited page. It’s been amazing!
Catlin Tucker
MAY 23, 2017
For the last two years, I’ve been moving farther away from conventional grades. I used to grade everything and dump hundreds of points into my digital gradebook over the course of a semester. When grades were due, my gradebook spit out a percentage for each student and that was the grade he/she received.
eSchool News
JUNE 30, 2023
The question asked was: “Why does Anne hide Peter’s shoes?” Was early exposure to texting crimping our students’ ability to write correctly? To engage in the critical thinking process that underpins the ability to write? years of age – 5th or 6th grade.
Faculty Focus
JUNE 1, 2025
I failed to appreciate the value of clear expectations and the inescapable necessity that my students needed to walk out of my class with a grade. For the next four years, I used Kevin Gannons grading contract to implement more structure and Barbara Schapiros third space to reflect on what worked for me and my students.
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