If you're like most parents, you feel the impact of the report card every quarter. You're either troubled or relieved when you look at each grade, and if you have more than one child, that could be a lot of grades affecting you. Do they feel like failures on your child's part when you see anything below a "B?" Or failures on the children's part? I get it. We live in a society that assumes grades are the best way to assess a child's learning, and to predict the child's future.

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Here's a video I made yesterday about this topic. I'd love to hear your feedback. And feel freed to share it with other parents, as well. https://youtube.com/live/iA-MjfA2HNE?feature=share Your advocate/parent coach/trainer, Tina

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