The one question to ask about your child’s grades | Cindi Williams | TEDxBellevueWomen
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- Decades of parent mindset research have revealed that nine in ten parents (regardless of income, race or geography) believe their child is at or above grade level. However, data shows that academic performance of our nation’s students has reached historic lows with less than one-third of our students being proficient in reading and math. This huge disconnect is due in no small part to “good grades.” How do we build a public education system that nurtures parent teacher partnership and equips parents to advocate for their child’s learning needs?
Cindi Williams is the co-founder of Learning Heroes - a leading education nonprofit researching parent and educator mindsets, providing solutions for meaningful parent engagement at the state, district, and school levels - and the CEO of Waypoint Education Partners. As a mom and evangelist for the power of meaningful parent engagement, Cindi works to ensure each parent has an accurate picture of their child's academic progress to fully engage as an informed advocate for their child's learning.
Mrs. Williams’ insights are grounded in decades of experience in research, advocacy, and communications as a senior official in the White House, US Department of Education, US House of Representatives, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a leading public policy firm, HCM Strategists. At Learning Heroes and Waypoint Education Partners, she and her partners work alongside leading nonprofits and state leaders to make our public education system more effective and equitable.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I'm a certified Dyslexia educator in Austin and this is so true. I wish parents would actually engage in their child's education. However, as long as we continue to promote students that aren't academically ready for the next grade, it will be difficult to get parents' to engage.
One question could change everything. ⭐
I’ve worked in a school system for 25 years. We’ve changed our report cards over the years. Kids get generic grades until sixth grade. Kids do not fail anymore. We don’t require homework anymore. Kids are moved from one grade to the next and summer school is not required. There are students who get As and Bs who are three grade levels below in reading. Frankly if teachers give bad grades they are attacked by parents and administrators. Students are not to be held responsible for anything. Our administration will not retain children EVER, because studies show that later children will drop out of high school. And that’s what administration cares about! Stats! You can’t just blame schools and teachers however. Kids are playing video games and watching Tik Tok six hours a day. They are not getting proper sleep. Parents are hardly involved, and are working long hours to make ends meet.
You really think its only 6 hours a day?
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Bravo! This awareness to « go beyond grades » is going to change the trajectory for some kids! Thank you for showing parents how we can do better!
I remember getting grades in elementary school. I was always the same kid every year, but my grades fluctuated wildly. It always seemed either arbitrary or else dependent on how much the teacher liked me.
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Someone explain to me why tests are worth 70% of a student's grade? My son can get 80 to 100% on everything until a test comes. There's no retention because kids are stressed out and that's not necessarily from school but also not always in their control or the parents who are just struggling to make ends meet and dealing with generational trauma. Where are the life skills that students need to learn like credit, taxes, home ownership, etc.? Someone please help me understand as a parent because I do care and I try my best.
So you've asked a lot of different questions and made many broad claims. I'll try to cover some. I'm guessing you're American, but I find that students who want to learn about taxes (which they do in math and careers) really just want to learn about money laundering and tax fraud (which likely won't be an applicable option for them in the first place). They absolutely do learn how taxes work. Kids will bold face lie and tell me a teacher has never taught them how to write a paragraph. Same thing. There's a lot of parroting what they hear online. Keep in mind. Elementary-highschool is meant to build up basic skills so you can get to a point of actually utilizing complicated or technical knowledge. School needs to be developmentally appropriate for students with developing brains and bodies.
Where I live filing your taxes aren't incessantly troublesome beyond understanding what labels may apply to you (disability, caretaker, dependant) and if you have out of country stock options or are a larger business owner. I've known many teachers who get them to fill out tax forms. Outside of key terms, there's not much to cover for the average income/student especially now that you can file online or with an in-person service for a fairly affordable price.
Financial Literacy includes things like intro life planning, career and education/training choice, renting vs buying, key terms like mortgages, credit scores etc. I get the kids to compare different bank accounts and credit cards.
Homeownership is covered, but realistically that's such a far off goal for many students and families. It's more realistic and useful to focus on credit score and the market (homeownership vs renting as a student/new graduate) as well as post-secondary options.
I agree students are stressed, but that's from a lack of extra support outside of school and a lack of funding in school (no funding=little intervention if a student isn't seeking feedback)
For your first question. It depends on the country and class. In general there's a shift away from this. But core classes like math may still use this model as assignments are practice/formative and not summative. Though I feel 80-100% is greatly exaggerated with rare exceptions.
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As a student with a 504 and disability, I'm actually above average significantly in multiple fields for my grade, my mum; a special ed worker and father who also works in education, changing schools multiple times, and that extra attention I get from staff from my 504 is why I am at that place of exceeding proficiency.
The speaker, Cindi Williams is exactly right. Parents, teachers, and the American education system should undeniably be working smarter, and communicating more. It's such a simple and massive thing that can help our students working in this education system that is honestly, quite broken.
I studied in an International school (I'm from India), and I can actually relate, I was a good student but skipped on trigonometry lessons and because of that I cant sit in competitive exams like JEE or BITSAT for engineering and IT courses, I am preparing for NEET (Indian medical entrance examination) which does not have trigo in its syllabus, instead it has Physics chem and bio, but I still would have liked to do something that involved mathematics like many of friends
My child has exceeded their grade level in both reading and math and has since Kindergarten. Probably because, as parents/guardians/aunties the adults in their life were educated and prized education. It might also be due to their diagnosed AuDHD. However, that just underscores the importance of asking the question, though more importantly, we need to ask "why."
Awesome! So needed to hear this
Thanks for this
I have students tell me that they have an IEP OR A 504 AND THAT THEY DO NOT WORRY BECAUSE I Can't fail them even if they don't do anything! Funny part, administrators tell me the same thing. Therefore, you have kids that can't read making the same grade as those actually passing with flying colors making the same grade....
I agree with this video.
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Nice video
Number one very very good♟️
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When tests demonstrate that children are not on grade level parents complain that the tests are flawed.
No. The problem are the parents who don't care despite all the information they get, they usually don't ask or react to any information. I m from Sweden.
Most schools detest parental interference! :-(