Contest — Grow Beyond Grades

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Students: How have grades—or the lack of them—shaped your learning or growth?

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Contest — Grow Beyond Grades

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How have grades—or the experience of learning without them—influenced your learning, growth, or personal journey? All genres and formats welcome! @humrespro.bsky.social @gotlearning.bsky.social
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Contest — Grow Beyond Grades

ANNOUNCING AN ESSAY CONTEST FOR HS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS!!! 🚀
How have grades—or the experience of learning without them—influenced your learning, growth, or personal journey? Please share w/interested students! @gotlearning.bsky.social #ungrading #growbeyondgrades
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Contest — Grow Beyond Grades

📢 ANNOUNCING AN ESSAY CONTEST FOR HS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS!!! 🚀
How have grades—or the experience of learning without them—influenced your learning, growth, or personal journey? Please share w/interested students! @gotlearning.bsky.social #ungrading #growbeyondgrades
growbeyondgrades.org/contest?123

Community Gathering - We’re Writing a Book! (Part 2) — Grow Beyond Grades Did you know that we’re writing a book?!? Rather than toil in silence until we have a final product, we felt our Community Gatherings would be a perfect way to assemble with trusted community, share w...

🚀 Excited for another Community Gathering tomorrow, Saturday, February 15! Connect with authors from our forthcoming book, engage with ideas on gradeless assessment, and help shape their work! RSVP here: growbeyondgrades.org/events/15feb25-community-gathering #Ungrading #GrowBeyondGrades

Where the Learning Happens w/Mike Rutherford — Grow Beyond Grades In his innovative teacher-designed platform, gotFeedback, Mike Rutherford has created a centralized space for communication and documentation, helping students and teachers record, reflect on, and sha...

Did you miss @davefrangiosa.bsky.social & @themcw.bsky.social's live streamed interview of @mikerford.bsky.social, founder of @gotlearning.bsky.social?

🎧 Watch/Listen here: growbeyondgrades.org/blog/01-25ru...

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Going Gradeless Requires Both Addition and Subtraction — Grow Beyond Grades Although most gradeless teachers engage in “subtraction,” removing traditional grading from our classrooms, we also need “addition” in the form of new infrastructure that connects our individual effor...

If you never get started on building infrastructure, the change you desire will never happen. And infrastructure building is a collective enterprise, not an individual one. —BarryFishman #GBGEdu #growbeyondgrades growbeyondgrades.org/blog/addition-and-subtraction

The Joy of Assessment Through Gradeless Practices — Grow Beyond Grades Receiving a grade and comment does little to move the learning forward. David Rockower shows us how we can drop the letter grade and instead facilitate feedback and student reflection.

Letting go of grades helped me enjoy the assessment process for the first time in my career. My only regret is it took me twenty-two years to jump in. — David Rockower #GBGEdu #growbeyondgrades growbeyondgrades.org/blog/rockower

Immediate Feedback — Grow Beyond Grades Do students learn more when the feedback is immediate? Math teacher, Andrew Burnett, shares the results of his research and how it has impacted learning in the classroom.

I believe that to promote learning, students deserve the quickest feedback possible on their assessments and the feedback needs to be meaningful and easy for the student to understand. — Andrew Burnett #GBGEdu #growbeyondgrades growbeyondgrades.org/blog/immedia...

Mario Maker and Going Gradeless in Math — Grow Beyond Grades Authentic participation is the gateway to student-led learning and engagement. Through participation, students gain confidence in their abilities, discover new ideas and skills, and eventually take re...

Grades demotivated my students, convincing many that they did not have mathematical ability. Likewise, my higher-ability students were reluctant to engage in further learning once they achieved the grade they needed. — Jared Hamilton #GBGEdu #growbeyondgrades
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Using Digital Spaces to Promote Linguistic Justice — Grow Beyond Grades Teacher educator, Karis Jones, explains how teachers can use digital spaces to encourage liberatory approaches to language in classroom discourse practices.

Which discourses “win out” and why? What are consequences of this for our linguistically diverse students? @karismjones.bsky.social #GBGEdu #growbeyondgrades
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Centering Student Strengths w/Dr. Kelsie Reed — Grow Beyond Grades Dr. Reed provides practical tools and resources to cultivate positive, strength-focused environments for all students. Her work centers on dismantling deficit-based narratives, particularly for studen...

Being strength-based is not about ignoring challenges. It's simply seeing students for more than those challenges. —Dr. Kelsie Reed #GBGEdu #growbeyondgrades
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Grades Tarnish Teaching as Well as Learning — Grow Beyond Grades Education professor Paul Thomas shares why grades, tests, and rubrics detract significantly from effective teaching and actually create the problems many teachers seem to be inordinately worried about.

I see transparency as a conversation in a learning community and an evolving, not static, state of any course bound by the limits of the academic calendar. @plthomasedd.bsky.social #GBGEdu #growbeyondgrades growbeyondgrades.org/blog/grades-...

Labor-based Grading Contracts and the Opportunity for Failure — Grow Beyond Grades Writers understand that writing requires revision, tinkering, and mistakes. Lots and lots of it. Most student writers, however, don’t welcome failure and mistakes so easily. Why?

There was a contradiction between what I said I valued and what my assessment methods valued. My grading policy conflicted with an important message I was trying to send to my students about failure. — Anthony Lince #GBGEdu #growbeyondgrades
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Not Yet Gradeless, But Grading Less — Grow Beyond Grades Many teachers are not in a position to go entirely gradeless, but there are still ways to “grow beyond grades.” Economics teacher Vanessa Ellis shares how she has shifted the focus toward feedback and...

Going gradeless. Sounds so empowering, right? But for many, going entirely gradeless is not a possibility in their teaching contexts. —Vanessa Ellis #gbg #growbeyondgrades growbeyondgrades.org/blog/not-yet...