Up to 95% of U.S. teenagers own a cell phone and kids receive about 500 notifications a day — many during school hours.
One New York school is taking part in the growing “no-phone” movement. A teacher there says it has been a game changer: “I saw kids’ faces again.”
Great keynote by @TomSchimmer today. Here’s the quote that I’m reflecting about on system-wide grading:
“Validity is in question when grades mean different things in different schools or subjects, in different classes, and for different types of students.”(Brookhart, 2013)
"We cannot conflate the report of doing things (compliance) with the reporting of learning things (mastery or proficiency)...doing so distorts the accuracy of the report of either one individually."
@rickwormeli2 makes the case against grading homework 👉okt.to/FWjeYP
There’s a whole philosophy of education that seems to want schools to do everything — from therapy to activism — EXCEPT traditional academics, kind of the whole purpose of schools