{"podcast":{"title":"School of Practice","slug":"school-of-practice-7494269","podcast_index_feed_id":7494269,"rss_url":"https://wpvip.edutopia.org/feed/podcast/school-of-practice","website_url":"https://www.edutopia.org/","image_url":"https://wpvip.edutopia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/school-of-practice.png","author":"Edutopia","episode_count":22,"summary":"School of Practice, the first podcast from the team at Edutopia, brings you ready-to-use strategies to improve your teaching today. Join us for 15-minute episodes filled with smart, pedagogy-shifting advice—backed by research and test-driven by teachers just like you.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T20:20:21.537972+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/school-of-practice-7494269"},"episode":{"title":"Rethinking Zeros in the Grade Book","slug":"rethinking-zeros-in-the-grade-book","published_at":"2026-05-26T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/school-of-practice-7494269/rethinking-zeros-in-the-grade-book","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/school-of-practice-7494269","url":"https://www.edutopia.org/","audio_url":"https://wpvip.edutopia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TylerR_EliminatingZeros_v4_mixdown_-18LUFS.mp3","summary":"What’s your take on eliminating zeros from the grade book? Does your school have a no-zeros grading policy? Even if it doesn’t, you probably have opinions about it. Setting 50% as the minimum grading threshold is a well-meaning effort to more accurately assess student learning, but it can also create new—and frustrating—challenges for teachers and students. In this episode of School of Practice, teacher and instructional coach Tyler Rablin explores the tradeoffs of eliminating zeros from the grade book. We’ll hear from teachers in our community with firsthand experience navigating the policy, and discuss exceptional strategies for building motivation and accountability without relying on numerical penalties. Related resources: Learn more about this episode Getting Rid of Zeros Won’t Fix the Grade Book Template: Tyler Rablin’s Late Work Contract Do No-Zero Policies Help or Hurt Students? Why the 100-Point Grading Scale is a Stacked Deck The Case Against Zeros in Grading How to Help Students Focus on What They’re Learning, Not the Grade Why Teachers Should Grade Less Frequently Research: “Equitable” Grading Through the Eyes of Teachers Research: Can We Trust the Transcript? Recognizing Student Potential Through More Accurate Grading","meta_description":"What’s your take on eliminating zeros from the grade book? Does your school have a no-zeros grading policy? Even if it doesn’t, you probably have opinions…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1417,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/school-of-practice-7494269/episodes/rethinking-zeros-in-the-grade-book/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/school-of-practice-7494269/rethinking-zeros-in-the-grade-book.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}