83 - Starting the Conversation About Grading with Others Before They Realize You Are Talking About Grading

Join us as we explore small ways to open a conversation about grading with other people, without them necessarily realizing that its a conversation about grading. In this episode, Sharona and Bosley talk about 7 ways you can crack the door open on grading. Everything from using the four pillars to finding common ground and discussing why we teach. If we listen carefully, there are more ways than we realize to turn small moments of opportunity into larger conversations.

Links

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• Taking the Grading Conversation Public
• When We Talk About Grading We Are Talking About People
• Ungrading, AI, and Feedback as Scholarly Work
• The End of Grades: An Afterward to Undoing the Grade

Seven Opportunities to Open Up the Conversation About Grading

1. Pick a Pillar
2. Talk About Purpose
3. Find Common Principles
4. Discuss What Will NOT Change
5. Think About Systems
6. Talk About People
7. Ask Why We Teach

Resources

The Center for Grading Reform - seeking to advance education in the United States by supporting effective grading reform at all levels through conferences, educational workshops, professional development, research and scholarship, influencing public policy, and community building.

The Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.

Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:

• The Grading for Growth Blog
• The Grading Conference
• The Intentional Academia Blog

Recommended Books on Alternative Grading:

• Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David Clark
• Specifications Grading, by Linda Nilsen
• Undoing the Grade, by Jesse Stommel

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Music

Country Rock performed by Lite Saturation, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.