I have been blogging about grading for nearly 7 years. Some posts were written before I adopted standards-based grading practices, but most are about my efforts to implement best practices in my classroom. You can use the grading tag on my blog to see the most recent two years' worth of posts. Here is a selection of my all-time most popular posts:
- Fight the Good Fight: An introduction to standards-based grading
- The Power of I: The role of using "Incomplete" as a scoring option
- Equal and Fair: Thinking about how standards-based grading allows each student to be treated fairly, as opposed to all of them equally
- Anecdotally Speaking: My solution to the number-crunching problem associated with standards-based grading
- Standards-based Grading: Mythbusters Edition: How my classroom experience aligned with grading fears and myths
- Standards-based Grading: Walking the Talk: Two student cases that tested my willingness to practice what I preach about grading
Since I began blogging, many other teachers have also shared their experiences on their own blogs. A list of blogs is below. Or, you may want to visit the Standards-based Grading Galas: collections of posts related to grading practices. Here are some of the blogs that participate:
- Action-Reaction by Frank Noschese
- Always Formative by Jason Byuell
- Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere by Sam Shah
- Newton's Minions
- Non-Inertial Teaching by Brian
- Physics! Blog! by Kelly O'Shea
- Think Thank Thunk by Shawn Cornally
There is also a community of teachers discussing standards-based grading practices on Twitter. (You can follow me here.) Use the #sbg or #sbar tags to find educators to follow, or subscribe to a list like this one. You do not have to have a Twitter account to see or subscribe to these feeds.
Have a blog to suggest or other social media source worth mentioning? Drop me a line.