Day Sixty. Here is our “Select and Support a Grade Final” for the semester. Ordinarily, the kids and I would have these conversations face-to-face, but in this anything-but-ordinary situation, we will have to settle for the letter that they will write to me this week as they seek to capture the story of their learning.

I suppose that some will view this as my passing the buck, that it’s my job to grade, and that I am inviting kids into places they don’t belong. But as I think about all the times in the past where I have pointed to the percentage as “truth,” that’s when I think I was really passing the buck. Here, now, and beyond, I will pass the pen to kids as I encourage them to become partners in assessing what in the end, they know the truth of better than any: their learning, their story. That is why I pass the pen.

Happy Monday, all. Have a great week.

Do. Reflect. Do Better.