Abner is the director of School and District Partnerships at the US company JumpRope. He spent 16 years teaching Middle and High school students, helped to start a public charter school in the District of Columbia, and for the last 18 years has worked with a variety of school improvement-focused organizations, helping teachers and school and district administrators on issues ranging from implementing the Common Core State Standards to developing rich, culminating performance assessments. He lives in the Washington DC area with his wife and son, and plays a lot of ice hockey.
I just hated getting my son’s report card these last several years. Funny, too, since I was a Middle and High school Language Arts teacher for 16 years and sent out report cards very similar to the ones I was now receiving. I guess that we get a more clear-eyed view of things as a parent. I just did not feel that these report cards helped me understand what our son excelled at and what he needed work on. Sure, there were the letter grades. But just what went into that A- or B, beyond the grades on a set of assignments?
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