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Episode Release Date: December 10, 2019

"Standards are tools, and like any other tool, they must be used with intention." - Greg Mullen

"It's not that standards don't belong in classrooms. It's that the skills and knowledge included in academic standards likely already exist in those teachers’ classrooms." - Greg Mullen

"Let me be clear: As I describe the value and importance of standards, it is imperative to note that without a solid understanding of how standards develop skills in and across grade levels, teachers will struggle to assist their colleagues in identifying ways to help students with particular gaps in learning." - Greg Mullen

Interview: Ken O'Connor, https://www.oconnorgrading.com/

"You can't do competency-based without doing standards-based, but you can be standards-based without being competency-based." - Ken O'Connor

"I think, yes, often [grades] have, in a sense, a greater impact on the way students behave than the way they learn..." - Ken O'Connor

"...what we really want to develop in students is responsibility, and responsibility is doing what you should be doing when you have a choice; compliance in a sense is doing what you should do, or what you must do, when you don't really have a choice." - Ken O'Connor