# Matt Townsley

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YOU MIGHT LIKE - Control+Shift+Lead: Shifting the Grading Paradigm

Welcome to the first show of 2026! We are kicking off the New Year with a "heavy hitter" in the world of education. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Matt Townsley, an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Northern Iowa and the acclaimed author of Making Grades Matt…

Your Morning Boost - The One Leadership Strategy to Overcome Grading Reform Resistance

After a week of diving deep into modern grading practices, experts Dr. Chad Lang and Dr. Matt Townsley deliver the most impactful leadership behavior for navigating the inevitable "implementation dip" that comes with change. They argue that the most effective way to quiet staff and community resist…

Your Morning Boost - The Non-Negotiable: How to Partner with Parents on Grading Reform

Are your grading conversations stuck in the "old paradigm"? In today's episode of Your Morning Boost, authors and grading experts Dr. Chad Lang and Dr. Matt Townsley (of The Parent's Guide to Grading and Reporting) reveal the most effective non-negotiable communication strategy for districts: equip…

Your Morning Boost - The Fatal Flaw of Grading: Why Your Averages Lie

Are you unknowingly using a grading system that actively punishes student growth? In this episode of Your Morning Boost, we continue our deep dive into grading reform with experts Dr. Chad Lang and Dr. Matt Townsley. They expose the mathematical flaw of traditional averaging—specifically, the dispr…

Your Morning Boost - Stop Lowering the Bar: Rethinking the Core Misconceptions of Grading Reform

Are you wrestling with the myths around modern grading? In this critical episode of Your Morning Boost, we dive deep with leading grading experts, Dr. Chad Lang and Dr. Matt Townsley (co-authors of A Parent's Guide to Grading and Reporting). They tackle the single most critical philosophical miscon…

The Final Episode: Strategies for Lasting Change in Grading

Modern Grading Reform — Sustaining the Work (Episode 4)Series Finale: 20 Years in the TrenchesIt is one thing to initiate grading reform; it is another to ensure it survives the "implementation dip" and becomes part of a school's cultural fabric. In this final installment of the Modern Grading Refo…

144 - Second-Order Change: Why Grading Reform Requires Leadership, Not Just Teachers

In this episode, Sharona and Boz welcome back Matt Townsley to dig into a critical—and often overlooked—truth about grading reform: if leaders don’t understand and support it, it simply won’t scale. Drawing on both research and real-world experience, Matt explains why grading reform is a “second-or…

Leadership Isn't Built on One Big Moment Lessons From Season 2

Great leadership is rarely built in one massive moment. It is built through the choices leaders make every day—the conversations they have, the environments they create, the questions they ask, and the way they show up for the people around them.In this Season 2 finale of Control Shift Lead, Jim Wi…

166 - How Do We Make Grading Reform Stick? The Five P's

With grading reform receiving increasing attention across both K–12 and higher education, how do we turn growing interest into change that actually lasts? In this episode, Sharona and Boz explore The Five Ps of Starting and Sustaining Grading Reform, a framework developed by Matt Townsley and colle…