Anyone following education posts and articles the past couple of weeks has surely noticed that schools around the U.S. are considering making course grades pass/fail for the time that schools have moved to at-home, remote learning due to COVID-19. Understandably, schools are motivated to make such a change out of concern for issues of equity and how to best represent students’ learning during these challenging times. ASCD guest blogger, and author of Grading for Equity, Joe F

Right about now, in many places, teachers are a couple of weeks into teaching remotely and supporting students’ learning. They are finding a groove with how to make contact with their students, be it email, video conferencing, phones or safe-distanced visits to homes. They are figuring out how to get assignments or activities out to their whole class in an accessible form. Undoubtedly, many teachers are now thinking about keeping track of what students are working on and how