My guest today is Myron Dueck, author of the bestselling book Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help them Learn.  Myron has been an educator in Canada and New Zealand for 22 years and is currently a vice principal at a high school in British Columbia.  He has been published in Educational Leadership magazine and has a three-part streaming series at ascd.org called Ask Them.  Myron expects his second book, Giving Students a Say: Smarter Assessment Practices to Empower and Engage, to be released in early 2021.  He also coaches volleyball.In our conversation, Myron discusses not only the flaws of the traditional, percentage-based grading system, but offers practical solutions to what an alternative could be in rethinking assessment practices.  He gives his thoughts on why grading homework and using zeros in the traditional sense as an incentive to motivate students to complete work does not often produce the desired outcomes.  Myron also talks about how we need to shift the narrative our students often walk around with by intentionally involving them in the assessment process as frequently as possible.