my vision, i found that its hard to stand in front of classes and admit that you are not sure exactly what they will learn this year, that you as a teacher have decided to let your students have some control over the content that they will learn. i tried doing that, but i’m not sure they believe me, yet.
standards-based grading was also a bit of a challenge to explain, as they have no experience of it in their other classes. i’m sure its the kind of thing that needs to be lived to be truly understood, but i think most students have a general idea of how they will 