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Centering Joy in the Classroom w/Liz Norell

How can we make classrooms more inclusive, engaging, exciting, relevant, and welcoming spaces for learning? Political science professor, Liz Norell, shows how, by embracing pedagogies of equity and care, we can create environments in which all students can flourish.

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Interviews Lisa Wennerth Interviews Lisa Wennerth

There’s No One Right Way to Ungrade!

Lisa Wennerth, welcomes four trailblazing educators, whose article “Why There Isn’t One ‘Right Way’ to Practice Ungrading” posits ungrading as a fundamentally open, welcoming, and responsive practice for all—not just the elite few.

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Interviews Arthur Chiaravalli Interviews Arthur Chiaravalli

Hover-free Teaching w/Miriam Plotinsky

Miriam Plotinsky, author of Teach More, Hover Less, breaks down hover-free teaching, showing how teachers can free themselves from helicopter habits and allow students greater control of their own learning, while still maximizing learning.

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Interviews Michelle Cottrell-Williams Interviews Michelle Cottrell-Williams

Go Out on the Branch w/Jay Percell

Jay Percell is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning at Illinois State University, an author of several academic essays, and a TEDx speaker. Michelle Cottrell-Williams hosts as Jay shares his reasons for moving away from traditional grades and toward a classroom where learning, improvement, and growth is the focus.

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Interviews Arthur Chiaravalli Interviews Arthur Chiaravalli

Care at the Core w/Sherri Spelic

Sherri Spelic, an elementary physical education teacher at American International School Vienna, shares her experiences and reflections on assessment, as well as how we can create more inclusive, responsive spaces in our classrooms.

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Interviews Arthur Chiaravalli Interviews Arthur Chiaravalli

Inclusive Assessment w/Natalie Vardabasso

Arthur Chiaravalli interviews Natalie Vardabasso, an instructional design and assessment specialist at Calgary Academy, a special education private school in Alberta, Canada. She is the host of the #EduCrush podcast and is a passionate advocate learning spaces that are inclusive of all students.

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Interviews Aaron Blackwelder Interviews Aaron Blackwelder

Respectful Assessment w/Starr Sackstein

Aaron Blackwelder interviews Starr Sackstein, author of the book Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School, and her latest book Assessing with Respect: Everyday Practices That Meet Students' Social and Emotional Needs.

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Interviews Arthur Chiaravalli Interviews Arthur Chiaravalli

Wad-Ja-Get? w/Barry Fishman

Arthur Chiaravalli interviews Barry Fishman, professor of Learning Technologies in the University of Michigan School of Information and School of Education. Barry pens the new introduction to the 50th-anniversary edition of Wad-Ja-Get, one of the earliest critical examinations of the effects of grading on student attitudes toward learning.

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