The Feedback Fix Quotes

“A grade is not necessarily that helpful in terms of early feedback because all it tells you is where you fail in terms of the expectation,” she says. “It doesn’t necessarily tell you what you need to do, or what part of your work needs to improve.”
― Joe Hirsch, The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change

“A great example of process-driven feedforward is the SE2R feedback model developed by Mark Barnes. Instead of scribbling a grade and some token comments on a piece of student work, Barnes adopts a four-part method that accounts for what students do, not who they are: Summarize Explain Redirect Resubmit”
― Joe Hirsch, The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change

“But feedforward lauds effort, not talent. And since effort is grown, not born, making that the focus of feedback teaches kids two things: First, and most promising, they can earn their own success. That’s life changing. Second—and this is the bitter pill—they will fall down along the way. A lot. When it comes to effort, there is no guarantee of a victory lap, just a steady stride toward the goal. Each attempt brings us a little closer to it, but never uniformly.”
― Joe Hirsch, The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change

“the most important driver of autonomy is significance: the sense that what we’re doing matters to us or to others.”
― Joe Hirsch, The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change

“culture of visible empowerment, a place where adults teach kids to become . . . adults. By helping children develop healthier habits of self-regulation and self-image, Momentous makes it possible for them to meet stress with strength. They develop the will to lead. They become creators, not victims.”
― Joe Hirsch, The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change

“Instead of talking about performance, Momentous focuses on potential—not who students are right now, but who they’re going to be and what they can do to get there. They deliver feedforward that builds autonomy and speaks to the creator inside of every child.”
― Joe Hirsch, The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change

“In the high-stakes testing culture of modern education, schools are allowing grades and performance data to undercut real and meaningful learning. Study after study has found that students—from elementary school to graduate school and across multiple cultures—demonstrate less interest in learning as a result of being graded. Feedback in the form of grades is the ultimate restraint: The grade can’t be changed, the lesson can’t be relearned, and numbers and letters don’t spell out a way forward. Worse, teachers and students get stuck on the wheel of relentless grading, diminished interest in learning, poor outcomes, more tests and grades—the cycle quickly turns vicious. But the real victim is the knowledge that students might have otherwise gained had feedback amounted to more than a rating.”
― Joe Hirsch, The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change

“Will doing this action cause heightened or diminished joy to me or to those close to me? Is there some enduring value to the work, or will its completion leave me feeling emptier, not more satisfied?”
― Joe Hirsch, The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change

“In the time of Google, knowledge isn’t the differentiator. Social emotional health is,” declares Michelle Kinder, the executive director of Momentous. “Kids need to know how to think, not just what to think.”
― Joe Hirsch, The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change