Kitsun-uke
@sptolley.bsky.social
I am an elementary music teacher who tries to make his class culturally relevant for students. Amateur academic, embroiderer, cook, baker, composer, songwriter, uke player, forever DM, world builder, and consumer of most nerdy properties.
Education is not a competition! Students are not commodities that we can simply change! Our antiquated grading systems should reflect actual effort and mastery not one off testing and weighted grades!
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Education is not a competition! Students are not commodities that we can simply change! Our antiquated grading systems should reflect actual effort and mastery not one off testing and weighted grades!
Educators should be given the permission to move students along and supports should be provided to ensure that they can move along.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Educators should be given the permission to move students along and supports should be provided to ensure that they can move along.
To be clear: all standards should be year long standards! Units should scaffold on each other allowing the teacher to differentiate for students to help move them along! You 👏🏻 should 👏🏻 never 👏🏻 average 👏🏻 standards 👏🏻 based 👏🏻 grades 👏🏻!
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
To be clear: all standards should be year long standards! Units should scaffold on each other allowing the teacher to differentiate for students to help move them along! You 👏🏻 should 👏🏻 never 👏🏻 average 👏🏻 standards 👏🏻 based 👏🏻 grades 👏🏻!
My students can be a 2 because they are showing progress toward mastery. My job is to help move them along even if it takes all year. Instead, we chunk scaffolding and grading into units and are told to move along at the pace of the curriculum without concern for mastery.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
My students can be a 2 because they are showing progress toward mastery. My job is to help move them along even if it takes all year. Instead, we chunk scaffolding and grading into units and are told to move along at the pace of the curriculum without concern for mastery.
Educational philosophy and modern praxis loves mastery based learning but educators are constantly placed into the situation of grading students on a competitive, weighted system masquerading as standards based.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Educational philosophy and modern praxis loves mastery based learning but educators are constantly placed into the situation of grading students on a competitive, weighted system masquerading as standards based.
This system is very similar to process based learning familiar to anyone who has learned to play an instrument. You practice and eventually you hit a point of mastery. If I have attained mastery but am sick for the performance and do not play my best, that doesn’t mean that I have lost my mastery.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
This system is very similar to process based learning familiar to anyone who has learned to play an instrument. You practice and eventually you hit a point of mastery. If I have attained mastery but am sick for the performance and do not play my best, that doesn’t mean that I have lost my mastery.
On the other side, standards based grading, reflects a students progress toward mastery. In a scale with 3 representing mastery, a student will be a 2 until they can achieve a 3. A 4 is designed to reward additional effort or brilliance.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
On the other side, standards based grading, reflects a students progress toward mastery. In a scale with 3 representing mastery, a student will be a 2 until they can achieve a 3. A 4 is designed to reward additional effort or brilliance.
If you miss three assignements out of 15, but they are weighted for over half the grade, your best outcome is an F.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
If you miss three assignements out of 15, but they are weighted for over half the grade, your best outcome is an F.
For example, in a percentage system, I am punished for failure, particularly at the end of the grading period. This is even worse when assignments are weighted as this disproportionately impacts students who miss these assignments, struggle with the instructions, or who have a difficult time.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
For example, in a percentage system, I am punished for failure, particularly at the end of the grading period. This is even worse when assignments are weighted as this disproportionately impacts students who miss these assignments, struggle with the instructions, or who have a difficult time.
I forgot each dough ball was dipped in garlic infused oil then it was brushed again after baking.
September 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I forgot each dough ball was dipped in garlic infused oil then it was brushed again after baking.