Grade Your Beef, Not Our Worth
Art education is supposed to cultivate and spur the seeds of creativity, not water them down with subjective evaluations of your worth.
Learning Scales, Amusement Parks, and Trusting Your Gut
Word is getting around. Teachers who have embraced the gradeless system are sharing their journey with those who aren’t there yet. It's slow, but I can feel a shift, a small wave building.
The Impact of Grades w/Jeff Frieden
Jeff is an English Language Arts teacher at Hillcrest High School in Riverside, California. In this episode of TG2Cast, Jeff and I discuss the impact of grades from the perspective of one of his students.
Redefining Quality: Working Toward New Measures of School Achievement
The purpose of schools is to provide students with an opportunity to explore and experience new opportunities. When we choose to equate quality with test scores, families, teachers, and administrators lose sight of what truly is important—the child.
Learning Maps: Empowering Students to Chart Their Own Course
Learning Maps makes learning and assessment more accessible to students, allowing them navigate curriculum in their own way.
Education, Grades, and Liberation w/Julia E. Torres
As a teacher/activist, Julia Torres's work is grounded in empowering students to use the Language Arts to fuel resistance and positive social transformation.
Feedback on Writing: Providing Strategies for Revision
I have tried many ways to get students to understand that writing is neither “right” nor “wrong.” Writing is about what works, what touches the reader, and what is authentic to the writer’s experience.
Grades Are Not the Whole Equation
In my years as a math anxiety specialist, I have found two main things to be helpful: written feedback and parents and teachers who are supportive and work as a team.
Providing Feedback to Promote Student Growth
Just as a coach provides feedback on improving a baseball swing or long jump form, I provide feedback on the use of historical evidence, thesis construction, and other discipline related skills.
Improve Understanding with Video Feedback
Andrew Burnett uses video to augment the power of verbal and written comments in his feedback to students.
Self Assessment: Empowering Students in their Own Learning
Although we tout education theories like “inquiry-based learning” or having a “student-centered curriculum,” the reality is that students slowly lose their agency or any sense of control over their learning as they move through the ranks.
Towards a Culture of Learning
Taking away grades signals a fundamental change in the power dynamics of a classroom, and students need to be supported in order to thrive.