 And I was thinking and writing and thinking some more and I wrote this story about me I was trying to figure out why I was so obsessed I wrote the story about my spelling test a lot of you saw it in the paper that I submitted and I was trying to get a sense of this Emotional impact of assessment practices and I learned through that story about myself an awful lot about how addicted I was to the stickers and numbers and I started to also realize how much I was thinking about that report card But how much assessment practices aren't just those official things that are on the cards They're woven into every interaction that happens in our classrooms And I think Carol Dweck says it's really well children are exquisitely sensitive to what's going on in a situation What other people value what they're being judged on I think always they are and our learning environments are full of those Moments of either support or judgment and it's so interesting to begin to really think about that