ABSTRACT
The author was the queen of the F. If students weren't handing in their homework, author whipped out my trusty calculator and showed them exactly what would happen to their grade average if they didn't hand it in. The author's rubric didn't care whether children had done the work all on their own, or whether this was the first writing assignment they'd ever managed to finish. one can see it at parent/teacher conferences when parents zero in on the bad grades, ignoring all the pluses we so meticulously planted on the report card. one can see it in the kids who show off their top grades yet have no real idea of why they received them. They evaluate each other's work as well, and one can have whole-room discussions about what an accomplished product should look like. When one can get ready to assess a standard, author ask them to pick the work that shows their mastery.
