Grow Your Flow & Glow - Teacher Podcast
Welcome to Grow Your Flow & Glow, a podcast where educator and Assistant Principal Kurt Walker explores the real heartbeat of learning: belonging, self-regulation and those powerful moments when students lose themselves in their work.
Through practical examples, honest reflections and research that actually makes sense in a classroom, Kurt helps teachers understand how to build environments where students feel capable, motivated and deeply connected to their learning.
Simple ideas. Real stories. Better learning. Every episode.
Grow Your Flow & Glow - Teacher Podcast
Assessment, Feedback & Motivation — When Measurement Hurts Learning
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What if assessment isn’t neutral — and never has been? In this episode, I unpack how grades, rubrics, and feedback can either build student confidence… or quietly teach kids to fear learning. Through a personal story from my own school years, I explore what happens when students stop asking “What can I learn?” and start asking “How do I not fail?”
We’ll look at the shift from grades to goals, how rubrics can act as maps (not verdicts), and what feedback sounds like when it actually fuels progress and flow. This is an episode about designing assessment with students — so learning becomes clearer, safer, and more empowering.
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