"By diagnosing students’ mastery of specific cognitive attributes, we revealed the heterogeneity of cognitive profiles behind identical total scores, confirming the limitations of traditional summative assessments and underscoring the advantages of fine-grained, attribute-level evaluation." Source⬇️

Spending some of my day digging into the research around learning progressions. The screenshot below is one of the figures included in the study for my reference. I genuinely feel like there's the same energy in both of these photos.

Professional development is only meaningful if you plan backwards. 1) What lifelong skills do we want our graduates to possess (collaboration, independent learning skills, etc.)? 2) What needs to happen in our classrooms in order for students to develop those skills (group work... 1/

Using a 50% minimum policy in a school without any additional grading reform to examine the ineffectiveness, inaccuracy, and inequity of averaging points over time to calculate a grade is the equivalent of using a bandaid to treat cancer. You can't quick fix a systemic issue for long.

Been a minute since I wrote a lengthy thread, but this was weighing on my mind.

It is no longer (and maybe never was) effective to expect a task to be an accurate representation of student learning. With generative AI able to create most tasks, it requires a decoupling in which students explain their learning separately from the task itself. Resources in the comment below ⬇️

A little timeline cleanse. Spent a couple nights out in the Yakima River Canyon this week looking for the wildlife that sticks around for the winter (if you can call it that this year). Here are a couple favorites.

Here's a collection of some of the more unique classroom management techniques I've gathered over the years. www.edutopia.org/article/clas...

Can I push back on the whole "don't grade formative assessments thing"? Hear me out... 1/

I loooove a good @mrrablin.bsky.social Edutopia post!!! @edutopia.org www.edutopia.org/article/clas...

Something @mrrablin.bsky.social wishes he thought of when he was teaching: With a difficult class, write down 3 good things every day, to train yourself to notice the positives. ☀️ Find 10 more classroom management tips: #EduSky #ClassroomManagement

Some of my favorite shots from the past week. I love the difference the light makes as the sun drops behind the hills.

Might get me in trouble... UDL and inclusion without assessment reform is an unnecessary, unproductive, and undue burden on the back of teachers.

Dopamine causes us to think about the future (good), but it also hinders our ability to enjoy the present (bad). This used to not be a problem (and was needed for survival), but in a world engineered to drive our behavior by hijacking our dopamine system, it makes sense so many people are unhappy.

Just wrote a piece about why the education system really does a disservice by demonizing extrinsic motivation. It's an oversimplified view that can actually harm students, specifically students who struggle in school. To be clear, no, using grades as motivators still isn't helpful.

While I've been doing lots of writing for other organizations recently, this is the first time in a long while that I wrote something simply because it was on my heart and mind, and I just needed to get it out. On A.I., the environment, and what we value: www.tylerrablin.com/blog/ai-amp-...

Students might use AI, @mrrablin.bsky.social says, if they think they can’t succeed without it—so he has tips for building their self-efficacy. 🧰 #EduSky

—@mrrablin.bsky.social

We’re not so different from our Paleolithic ancestors, writes instructional coach @mrrablin.bsky.social. Our brains still seek the most efficient path. 🏃 If students are using AI to accomplish a goal, the real problem is that their goal isn’t learning—it’s accumulating points for a grade. 🧵 1/5

One of the trickiest things is to figure out what to do when students struggle on an assessment, especially when mandates require you to forge ahead with the pacing of the curriculum. Here are my best approaches. www.edutopia.org/article/supp...

Oral assessment is such an important piece of an assessment system that is often overlooked. Here's how I used it in my classroom: www.edutopia.org/article/bene...

I guess this is proof of life. I’m still around, but my wife and I are taking a leave of absence from our jobs to travel and explore. Still doing lots of writing and still excited to return to education, but holy smokes, the world is incredible and so worth protecting.

I love the visual element of these rubrics. I could really see using the bar chart being useful to help students see growth towards learning outcomes for a unit or term. I used a table for mine, but the added visual element is great. www.edutopia.org/article/repr...

Really appreciated the simplicity and clarity of @beckykeene.com asking this question of her students: “Does this use of AI limit my learning?” Focuses students back on learning without being overly judgmental or placing a morality value on AI.

Expecting every teacher to teach the same thing at the same time is not an effective method to ensure that every student learns what they need to learn. Assessment literacy and design > adhering to curricula This burden only falls on the teacher's shoulders when a district drops the ball.

If you all thought my bird obsession didn’t extend to the classroom, think again. The secret’s out with my attention-getting strategy in this article.

I used to take this all for granted until a torn ACL took it away from me for a season. I am so grateful to be able to be out on the trails and enjoy these views again. (But now looking forward to a couple of days home to work on some projects.)

Before developing these assessment strategies, @mrrablin.bsky.social “felt like I was getting information about what my students needed and then simply ignoring it as I forged ahead with the curriculum.” Now, he can effectively address students’ needs—and increase learning. 💫 #assessment #EduSky

What if you could give an assessment, use the results to design differentiated learning experiences to catch students up, *and* still manage to keep up with pacing requirements? 💯 These are some of the most effective ways @mrrablin.bsky.social has found to do all 3 things at the same time. #EduSky

An important reminder-to-self going into the new school year: just because students have 1-to-1 devices doesn't mean they have to be on them during your class period every day. Prioritize learning and community, even if it means setting technology to the side.

Three hours of photos in ten seconds from my campsite last night.

So, I had the most adorable morning in the mountains.

So your students struggled on an assessment. What’s next? @mrrablin.bsky.social shares strategies to help you address student misconceptions uncovered by an assessment *and* redesign assessments so students have more time to learn about the concept they’re struggling with. 🌟 #assessment #EduSky

Instructional coach @mrrablin.bsky.social shows teachers how to begin with standards-based grading, breaking the work down with practical, usable strategies. 💯 #assessment #EduSky

Lovely sunrise the other morning.

Today was a “whoops, got caught on a ridge in a thunderstorm that I didn’t know was coming” kind of hike, but it was still beautiful.

Some books don't just shape us as people—they transform how we show up in our classrooms. Teachers, what book shaped you? #EdChat #EduSky #teachers

How can you make standards-based grading work if you are required to input a certain number of grades per week? Instructional coach @mrrablin.bsky.social can show you! And he should know—he managed it for a decade. 🌟 #assessment #EduSky

New project in the works. Hoping to have a pay-what-you-want course out this summer to support any teacher interested in using learning progressions in their classroom.

— @mrrablin.bsky.social #EduSky #assessment

Skyward’s new grading software is called Qmlative, and like, I get it, but I still hate it that name so much. I feel like someone is stabbing my brain every time I see it.

Someone just commented that they made it to the end of this blog post, and I feel like they deserve a medal. 6,000+ words probably doubled my previous record for longest post, but I just had so much I wanted to capture in this. www.tylerrablin.com/blog/the-ban...

Had to earn every bit of this view, but getting a view of Ranier like this while having the trail all to myself? Definitely worth it. I saw 2,000 feet up in 6 miles and thought nothing of it. Forgot to notice that 700 of those feet are a scramble in the last .4 miles. Ironstone Mountain is no joke.

There’s a reason this is the longest blog post I’ve ever written. So many grading “reforms” are just bandaids (albeit, sometimes necessary bandaids for the short term), but they can detract from the deeper, more meaningful reform that needs to happen (and can have negative side effects over time).

This video captures why grading reform matters so much to me. So many students receive messages of failure, even when they’ve grown and improved, because of they way we average points over time in many systems.

The mountains threw all kind of weather at me this weekend, but if you look for it, there's beauty even on the most adverse of days (namely, when you wake up at 2:30 to hike to a summit only to find clouds).

I am always grateful to get to join in on someone's podcast, but this one was a conversation I especially enjoyed. Such tricky topics, and I really appreciated processing them with @marcusluther.bsky.social

"It's the idea that we want students to maintain hope." Throughout this conversation with @mrrablin.bsky.social I was so appreciative of how he talked about grading in a way that balanced nuance and clarity—and were really helpful to bring into my own thinking in the "why" behind grading policies.

There are a lot of "things" within the conversation of grading in schools right now and people sometimes have different thoughts on those things. For example: ✓ minimum grades — 👍 or 👎? ✓ late work penalties — 👍 or 👎? ✓ assessment retakes — 👍 or 👎? ✓ averaging grades — 👍 or 👎? Thoughts, #EduSky?

This conversation is 100% a result of two things: [1] years of following @mrrablin.bsky.social's work and being curious to learn more about his thinking re: grades and [2] this not-long-at-all (*wink wink*) blog post that left me ruminating for days: www.tylerrablin.com/blog/the-ban...