Rubrics, Part 3: Transparency
This post provides a deeper look into the ideas of transparency, one of JumpRope’s Core Values. As a young teacher, one of the first traditional concepts I questioned was the use of the bell curve. I couldn’t understand how having a certain percentage of my students land to the left side of the high point in the curve was a good thing for me as a teacher. Wasn’t my job to actually teach the students? And if a group of them were either learning marginally or not learning, didn