Standards-Based Grading

Strobel Education's Standards-Based Grading workshop empowers K-12 educators with the mindset, tools, and strategies needed to implement a grading system that more accurately reflects what students actually know and can do. Traditional grading practices — with their reliance on points, averages, and the blending of academic achievement with behavioural compliance — often obscure rather than illuminate student learning. Standards-based grading offers a fundamentally different approach, one that separates academic mastery from classroom behaviour, focuses on learning goals rather than task completion, and provides students and families with clear, meaningful information about progress toward specific standards. This workshop addresses both the philosophical foundations and the practical mechanics of making this transition: from designing standards-aligned assessments and rubrics to managing gradebook structures, communicating with parents who may be unfamiliar with the approach, and building the kind of classroom culture where grades motivate growth rather than compliance. Available as a virtual workshop, online course, or customised onsite training, Strobel Education's programme includes a digital resource bundle with mini-lessons, activities, videos, collaboration articles, and implementation tools. For schools and districts ready to align their grading practices with what research tells us about effective assessment and student motivation, this workshop provides the comprehensive support needed to make that transformation both successful and sustainable.