S7E2 - Building Belonging and Grading What Matters to Boost Achievement
Episode Notes
Bell Middle School reduced its D/F rate from 51% in 2022 to 28% in 2024. That's a 23 percentage point reduction.
Even more impressive, for low income students, the D/F rate was 67% in 2022, and Bell cut it by more than half, down to 29% in 2024.
In this episode, Alec Patton talks to science teacher Teddy Meckstroth about how they did it.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman
- How to do the 2x10 Strategy (article) (video)
- The CARE Network
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