Scott Benedict

Let's review the basic 3 steps of TPRS Establish meaning. Ask a story. Read.

If you know anything about standards-based grading, you know it's all about demonstrating what you can DO with what you know. It's definitely NOT about the path you took to get there.

Many people have been asking about my participation system over the last few weeks. It's been a while since I wrote about my ¡Págame! system and a lot has changed since then.

In 2010, I finally learned what Susie Gross had been telling us all along. She had been saying to us that you need to love every child, even if you don't. I had heard the words for years, but it didn't really sink in until fall of 2010, but the story begins a year earlier.

This is the time of year that all teachers think about that first day and how they are going to start the year off right. I'm no different.

I have really given even more thought to what do grades really mean? Are they an indicator of work given vs work completed? Are they an indicator of correct answers vs incorrect answers? Are they just a number on a scale of 0 to 100? Or do they—or more accurately—should they mean something more?