Join Ryan and Erich for their second episode on their series on grades. During this episode, Ryan and Erich had the pleasure to visit with Johanna Brown. Johanna is a Chemistry teacher from Pullman Washington who has been granted the autonomy from her district to experiment with moving away from a letter grade system to use a feedback method of grading. She brought some really good insight to the show about why letter grades are not a good measure of learning and how her students have risen to the challenge of her feedback based system. Even if you work in a district where moving away from letter grades is not an option, you will still find value in listening to how she uses feedback in her classroom.
Resources from Johanna:
Websites: cultofpedagogy.com and teachersgoinggradeless.com
Book: Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and what to do instead) By Susan D. Blum. Johanna is also part of an online book study for this book on twitter. Their first chat is December 19th at #ungrading
Tweet of the week comes from @chrisemdin
Strategy of the Week: Having students keep a "Thinking Document." From Johanna's description this is a fabulous strategy to help foster inquiry based learning.
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