This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 175 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode, we are going to explore a really cool variation on the typical rubric called the Hyper Rubric.

I have always believed in the power of a good clear rubric for helping students understand how their work will be assessed.

As an English teacher, I can't even imagine assigning a writing task without a rubric.

But all rubrics are not the same.

Some can be convoluted in messes that overwhelm students. Others can be far too vague to be really helpful.

Ideally, all teachers would use the most effective rubrics all the time, but we're not quite there yet.

On my site, I've explored lots of rubric tweaks and iterations that make them more effective, and today's episode will add more to that work.

A different way of developing and using a rubric that changes it from a tool for evaluation to a tool for marking progress and pushing students to keep moving forward.

My guests, Tyler Rablin and Jeff Frieden, are two English language arts teachers who developed this idea and are calling it a Hyper Rubric.

Today, we'll be talking about how this style of rubric came to be and how it works.

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