Chapter 3: Curriculum and Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning

The part of chapter 3 that stood out to me was the part about the different standards. One of the standards that I found intriguing was the Excellence and Equity standard. I never thought that excellence should be looked at as a standard. This is, of course, if excellence was a relative term. I feel like if, as an educator, I am looking at the cumulative grades on the report card looking for high B's and A's then I am failing my students, but if I was to look at excellence as this student was working at level x in the beginning of the year and is now producing work that is much higher then they have achieved working excellence in my opinion.