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The Grading Podcast105 - Is Alternative Grading at a Tipping Point?In this episode, Sharona and Bosley explore the ideas from Malcolm Gladwell's iconic book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. During the discussion, they explore the key indicators of a tipping point and discuss how we as a community might try to intentionally move towards a tipping point into mass awareness and (hopefully) adoption.LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can...2025-07-1554 minThe Grading Podcast102 - Critical Digital Pedagogy: Thinking Critically About Grading, AI and How We Decide to Do What We Do, An Interview with Dr. Sean Michael MorrissIn this episode, Sharona and Bosley sit down for a conversation with Dr. Sean Michael Morris to talk about Critical Digital Pedagogy. What is it? How can we think critically about our grading practices? How do we think critically about AI and it's impact on our grading choices?LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!https://www.seanmichaelmorris.com/Critical Digital Pedagogy - What Is It?ResourcesThe...2025-06-2453 minThe Grading Podcast100 - Getting the Band Back Together! The OGs discuss the last decade of Alt Grading and Where We See It Going Next!We made it to episode 100! Join us as we welcome back to the pod, for the first time altogether, David Clark, Kate Owens, and Robert Talbert! With Sharona and Boz we made up the original organizing team for the 2020 Grading Conference. We talk about the journey getting to here, and where we see things going (and what we hope to see) in the next 10 years! ResourcesThe 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...2025-06-101h 04The Grading Podcast98 - Sessions and Topics and Toolkits - oh my!!! Previewing the 2025 Grading Conference with the Conference Organizing Team.In this episode, many of the organizers of this year's conference join Sharona and Bosley to preview the upcoming conference and talk about some of the community aspects of The Grading Conference. We welcome Ashleigh Fox, Jenni Momsen, Emily Pitts Donahoe, and Melanie Lenahan.LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!In preparation for the conference, please join the Alternative Grading SlackResourcesThe Center for Grading Reform...2025-05-2753 minThe Grading Podcast97 - Distinguishing Different Letter Grades: The Three Hurdles ModelIn this episode, Sharona and Bosley discuss different ways to look at the grade wrap up portion of the grading architecture as it relates to learning outcomes as well as assessments. They discuss the well known "more hurdles, higher hurdles" metaphor but expand it into three different types of hurdles instead of the two we have used previously. From different learning outcomes, to different proficiency scale levels, to different levels of difficulty of problems on assessment, there are many way to distinguish an "A" from a "B" from a "C". Also, a preview of some of the sessions at...2025-05-2059 minThe Grading Podcast91 - Feedback: Improving How We Give It and How Students Use ItThis week we welcome Joe Zeccola back to the podcast. In this episode, Sharona, Boz and Joe look at how we give feedback, how students use it, and how we make both the giving of feedback and the student use of feedback easier, more useful, and more in line with our goals for our students. LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!Instructional Feedback: The Power, the Promise, the Practice 1st Edition, by...2025-04-081h 01The Grading Podcast89 - AI and CheckIt: Tools and Methods for Gathering Evidence of Learning (Making Assessment Writing Easier)This week Sharona and Boz share some ideas, tools and methods for making assessment writing easier including AI, CheckIt (programmable assessment generation) and intentional alignment of content and assessments. LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!CheckItChatGPTGemini (Google AI)ResourcesThe 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...2025-03-2553 minThe Grading Podcast84 - Standards Based Grading in Engineering, A Method for Focusing on Learning - an interview with Dr. Corin BowenDescriptionIn this episode, Sharona and Bosley talk with Dr. Corin Bowen, an Engineering Education researcher and assistant professor in the Civil Engineering department at California State University Los Angeles. We talk about student motivation and engagement, the opportunities that standards-based grading has provided Dr. Bowen's students, and what it was link to come in to a course that had already been redesigned to use standards-based grading as a new instructor. Join us as we talk grading structures, critical pedagogy, the power of undergraduate instructional student assistants and so much else.ResourcesThe...2025-02-181h 04The Grading Podcast78 - Looking more at Proficiency Scales - Doing "Bee" Work: An Interview with Patrick MorrissIt has finally happened!! We have found an instructor who uses emoji's MORE than Sharona does!! Join us as we talk with Patrick Morriss, professor of Mathematics at Foothill College about his proficiency scales and grading system in Higher Ed Math. LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!Patrick's Qualitative Grading SystemThe 5 Lemon Sheet - Daily CheckinResourcesThe Center for Grading Reform - seeking to advance education in...2025-01-0757 minThe Grading Podcast77 - Happy New Year! Replay of Alt Grading in Large Chemistry Classes: An Interview with Dr. Eden TannerHappy New Year! On the podcast this week we replay our episode (Episode 21) with Dr. Eden Tanner, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Mississippi. Listen to hear about using alternative grading in the context of a 170 person general chemistry course. Eden has a fascinating take on approaching alternative grading from a research mindset, and how that led her to adopt the principles of alternative grading.LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for...2024-12-311h 06The Grading Podcast75 - Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students and What We Can Do About It: An Interview with Dr. Josh EylerIn this episode Sharona sits down with Dr. Josh Eyler, Director of Faculty Development at the University of Mississippi and author of the new book Failing our Future: How Grades Harm Students and What We Can Do About It. Join us as we talk about the book, about change efforts at the classroom, department, college and institutional levels, and what individual instructors can do to lead change efforts.LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your...2024-12-1755 minThe Grading Podcast54 - Reflections on the 2024 Grading Conference with Ashleigh Fox and Drew LewisNow that we are a few weeks out from the 2024 Grading Conference, Sharona sits down with two of the organizers (and repeat guests on the pod) Dr. Ashleigh Fox and Dr. Drew Lewis. Hear about some of the highlights of the conference for each of them, as well as what they hope to achieve with next year's conference.ResourcesThe 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 BlogThe Grading ConferenceThe Intentional Academia...2024-07-2332 minThe Grading Podcast45 - Exploring the schedule for the 2024 Grading ConferenceJoin us as we explore some of the sessions at the upcoming Grading Conference! Sharona and Bosley share some details of the newly released schedule for the Grading Conference, as well as discuss which ones they would really like to attend.LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!The Grading ConferenceResourcesThe Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12....2024-05-2150 minThe Grading Podcast40 - Data-Driven Instruction: Using Learning Outcome Data to Talk with Students, Instructors, and AdministratorsIn this episode, Sharona and Bosley go into more depth about how tracking student progress on learning outcomes can provide a wealth of data to use in supporting students, improving course designs, and communicating with administrators. LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!How Alternative Grading Helps Me Support Struggling Students, by David ClarkResourcesThe Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education...2024-04-1653 min
The Rock and Roll Geek ShowBest Chuck Berry Covers - Rock and Roll Geek Show 1286On this show I play some of yours and my favorite covers of Chuck Berry. Musie by: Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes Waysted AC/DC Linda Ronstadt Ian Gillan Johnny Winter Mohagany Rush Judas Priest Ten Years After Dave Edmunds Humble Pie Izzy Stradlin George Thorogood Rod Stewart ELO Emmy Lou Harris R.E.O Speedwagon Chuck Berry Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership ...2024-04-091h 34The Grading Podcast13 - Interim Grades: What do we do when we have to report "grades" in the middle of a term? With Joe ZeccolaMany institutions require instructors to provide "interim" or "midterm" grades. How does this work with an alternatively graded class? In this episode, co-hosts Sharona and Bosley are once again joined by nationally board certified English teacher Joe Zeccola to discuss the practice of providing middle-of-the-term grades to students and other stakeholders. In addition to interim grades, we also discuss how redesigning your grading practices can have a profound impact on teaching practices throughout a classroom.ResourcesThe Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education and K-12.Some...2023-10-101h 04The Grading Podcast9 - Reassessment Carnivals: An Interview with Kate OwensIn this episode, Sharona and Bosley talk with Dr. Kate Owens, a math professor at the College of Charleston, about her journey into Alternative Grading, how she handles assessments and reassessments in her classes, and what her top tips are for instructors considering switching to Alternative Grading. LinksA Beginner's Guide to Standards Based Grading by Kate OwensAn Interview with Kate Owens by Robert TalbertKate Owens, College of CharlestonHow We Moved A Conference Online by Kate Owens, Sharona Krinsky and David ClarkResourcesThe Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring...2023-09-121h 04The Grading Podcast8 - Getting Started Part 5: How to Determine When a Student has Completed a Learning Outcome and How to Roll it All Up Into a Final GradeIn this episode, our hosts Bosley and Sharona take a thorough look at the third and fourth decisions of the grading architecture of an alternatively graded course. How will a student complete a learning target?How does an instructor roll up evidence of learning into a final grade?In traditional grading, instructors don't usually determine if a specific learning target has or has not been completed satisfactorily. There are numerous ways, based on assessment methods and other factors, to determine when the learning target is complete. From a holistic approach to specific numbers of demonstrations of...2023-09-0555 minThe Grading Podcast5 – Getting Started Part 3: Developing your Grading ArchitectureIn this episode, Sharona and Bosley describe the four decisions that make up the "Grading Architecture" of an alternatively graded course.How will you assess your learning targets?What type of proficiency scale(s) will you use?How will students show proficiency for a specific learning target? (I.e. how much evidence and of what kind to they need to provide)How will you wrap up into a final grade?After introducing the four decisions, they explore some examples of common options used for each of the decisions. This includes:What types of evidence of...2023-08-1545 minThe Grading Podcast3 – Getting Started Part 2: Alternative Grading DefinedIn this episode of The Grading Podcast, co-hosts Sharona and Bosley introduce the four pillars of Alternative Grading:Clearly defined and measurable learning outcomesHelpful, actionable feedbackMarks indicate ProgressReattempts/redos without penaltyEach pillar is introduced and defined, along with common misconceptions and myths.ResourcesThe Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education and K-12.Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:The Grading for Growth BlogThe Grading ConferenceThe Intentional Academia BlogRecommended Books on Alternative Grading:Grading for...2023-08-0140 minThe Grading Podcast1 – Introduction – Welcome to the Pod!Welcome to the launch of The Grading Podcast with your hosts, Robert Bosley and Sharona Krinsky. Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Grading Podcast, a show dedicated to exploring everything related to grading student work in the context of the educational system of the United States.Grading is a largely unexamined component of the classroom experience for most instructors and students. Until the fifteen years or so, important research into grading practices and their effect on students was often ignored by instructors, administrators, and institutions in favor of a "traditional" points-and-percentages based grading system...2023-07-1835 min
Follow Your Dream - Music And Much More!Chris O'Dell - The "Forrest Gump Of Rock 'n Roll". Worked For The Beatles. First Female Tour Manager For The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Linda Ronstadt And Many More. George Harrison Wrote "Miss O'Dell" For Her!Chris O’Dell has been called the Forrest Gump of Rock 'n Roll because she's worked with so many Superstars. She was one of the original employees of Apple Records. She was in the studio when the Beatles recorded The White Album and Abbey Road. She sang on the chorus of "Hey Jude". She later become the first female Tour Manager working with The Rolling Stones on their Exile On Main Street tour, Bob Dylan on his Rolling Thunder tour, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Linda Ronstadt and many others. And George Harrison wrote the song “Miss O’Dell” for her, whi...2023-05-0432 min
Follow Your Dream - Music And Much More!Don Randi - Member Of The Wrecking Crew. Worked With Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Linda Ronstadt, Glen Campbell, Nancy Sinatra And Many More!Don Randi is a keyboard player extraordinaire and a member of The Wrecking Crew, the West Coast group of studio musicians who played on hundreds of hit records in the 1960s and afterwards. He worked with Phil Spector, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Poneys, Glen Campbell, Nancy Sinatra and so many more. His exploits and those of his colleagues were captured in Denny Tedesco’s wonderful documentary “The Wrecking Crew”.My featured song is “My Baby”. Spotify link—--------------------------------------The Follow Your Dream Podcast:Top 1% of all podcasts...2023-03-0635 min
Follow Your Dream - Music And Much More!Peter & Jeremy: Peter Asher (Peter & Gordon) And Jeremy Clyde (Chad & Jeremy) Talk About The British Invasion Era, Paul McCartney, George Martin, And We Do Two Songfests. A Smashing Episode!Peter Asher (Peter & Gordon) and Jeremy Clyde (Chad & Jeremy) were the softer counterparts to the hard rock beat groups of the British Invasion era of the 1960s. Peter & Gordon had massive hits with songs like “A World Without Love” and “I Go To Pieces”. Peter went on to have an illustrious career in the music business, first as the head of A&R for Apple Records where he signed a then-unknown James Taylor, then as producer for many artists including Linda Ronstadt, and currently as the host of “From Me To You”, a weekly Beatles show on Sirius/XM. 2023-02-0649 min
Go Kat, GO! The Rock-A-Billy Show!Go Kat, GO! The Rock-A-Billy Show! 1.4.23202. Bask in all of the boppin' glory! We've got the GREATEST recordings made in 2022 warming up on deck here in the Motorbilly Studio, ready to spin just for YOU! Stackin' 'em high and makin' 'em FLY out over the airwaves, it's the Aztec Werewolf™, DJ Del Villarreal reliving the BEST ROCKIN' RELEASES OF 2022 on the Wednesday nite "Go Kat, GO! The Rock-A-Billy Show!" Check out the wildest singles of 2022 including JD McPherson, The Sirocco Bros., Son Demon & The Holy Boys, Jane Rose & The Deadends...2023-01-053h 26
Follow Your Dream - Music And Much More!Richie Furay - King Of Country Rock With Buffalo Springfield, Poco and Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. Talks About Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Gram Parsons And Much More!Richie Furay is the father of Country Rock music. He was a founding member of three Supergroups: Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Still and Neil Young, Poco with Jim Messina, and the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band with JD Souther and Chris Hillman. If not for Richie Furay there might not have been the Eagles or Jackson Browne or Linda Ronstadt or many others.My featured song is “Stockbridge Fanfare” from East Side Sessions by my band, Project Grand Slam. Spotify link here.--------------------------------------------- The Follow Your Dream Podcast:Top 1% of all podcasts with Listeners in 200 countr...2022-10-2438 min
Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural StoriesThe Shrine by Robert PettusIn "The Shrine," Pettus takes us on a journey into a deep, dark forest, a creepy, dilapidated trailer, and a weird shrine to the Virgin Mary. There’s rock music, nasty people, innocents and monsters…in short, everything you would want in a story that is the first in our October Halloween series.Robert Pettus is an English as a Second Language teacher at the University of Cincinnati. Previously, he taught for four years in a combination of rural Thailand and Moscow, Russia. He was most recently accepted for publication at The Horror Tree, White Enso, White Cat Publ...2022-10-0526 min
Fifty Key Stage Musicals: The PodcastGREASE (1994)GREASE (1994)COMPOSER: Jim Jacobs, Warren CaseyLYRICIST: Jim Jacobs, Warren CaseyBOOK: Jim Jacobs, Warren CaseyDIRECTOR: Jeff CalhounCHOREOGRAPHER: Jeff CalhounPRINCIPLE CAST: Ricky Paull Goldin (Danny), Rosie O’Donnell (Rizzo), Susan Wood (Sandy)OPENING DATE: May 11, 1994CLOSING DATE: Jan 25, 1998PERFORMANCES: 1505SYNOPSIS: At Rydell High greaser Danny falls in love with good-girl Sandy. Throughout their high school days, they, and their friends, try to figure out life and love....2022-05-201h 00
Fifty Key Stage Musicals: The PodcastBEAUTY AND THE BEASTBEAUTY AND THE BEASTCOMPOSER: Alan MenkenLYRICIST: Howard Ashman, Tim RiceBOOK: Linda WoolvertonSOURCE: Disney’s animated film Beauty and The Beast (1991)DIRECTOR: Robert Jess RothCHOREOGRAPHER: Matt WestPRINCIPLE CAST: Gary Beach (Lumiere), Susan Egan (Belle), Terrence Mann (Beast)OPENING DATE: Apr 18, 1994CLOSING DATE: Jul 29, 2007PERFORMANCES: 5,462SYNOPSIS: Belle is a young girl who stumbles into a castle and is kept captive by its owner, a mo...2022-05-191h 18
InfluencedLinda RonstadtCommonly referred to as the "Queen of Country Rock" Linda Ronstadt came belting out of the late '60s in her first band the Stone Poneys. After the breakup of the Poneys, Linda hastily began a solo career in the early '70s backed by songs from JD Souther, Jackson Brown and even Glenn Frey and Don Henley, she soon began one of the highest selling solo careers of the decade. She began to dominate the charts with a string of chart topping songs and albums and even had a hand in the formation of the Eagles after Glenn...2022-05-0445 min
Power Chords PodcastPower Chords Podcast: Track 79--Aerosmith and The Linda LindasOpening Act: Autograph’s Randy Rand passesJoel Hoekstra and Michael Sweet’s new project IconicThe Ratt reunion that almost wasDef Leppard’s new album Diamond Star HalosRobert Sweet’s Cleanbreak projectEar Candy: Aerosmith: Rock in a Hard Place (1982)The Linda Lindas - Growing Up (2022)Rockversation: Simon DanielsMatt recently spoke with the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Autograph about his musical influences, moving to L.A. in the 80s, his journey to Autograph, the band’s upcoming album, and more. Note: This...2022-04-301h 22
Another Kind of Mind: A Different Kind of Beatles PodcastFrom GENIUS COMPOSER to POP LIGHTWEIGHT: How the 1970s Rock Press Rebranded Paul McCartneyDr. Allison Bumsted joins Phoebe and Daphne to discuss how rock journalism in the 1970s re-shaped Paul McCartney’s critical reputation for the next three decades (and beyond).
Also discussed in this episode: authenticity, gatekeeping, rock aesthetics and rhetoric, hyper-masculinity and the inherent inclusivity of pop.
SOURCES
Paul McCartney interviewed on Radio Luxembourg May 12, 1973
Something About the Beatles, “Critiquing the Critics” Episodes 176a and 176b
A Women’s History of the Beatles, Christine Feldman-Barrett (2021)
The Beatles and the Historians, Erin Torkelson-Weber (2016)
Truant Boy: Art, Authenticity and Paul McCartney...2022-04-182h 19
Storybeat with Steve CudenRobert Cuccioli-Actor-Singer-Director-Episode #188The brilliant actor, singer, and director, Robert Cuccioli, is renowned for his critically acclaimed, Tony-nominated dual performance as the good Dr. Henry Jekyll and his sinister alter ego, Mr. Edward Hyde, in Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical. Prior to his sensational run in Jekyll & Hyde on Broadway, Robert dazzled audiences across America in the show’s pre-Broadway, first national tour. Both the tour and Broadway featured Linda Eder and Christiane Noll. For Broadway, Robert received Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and FANY Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. For the record: April 28, 2022, marks the 25th Anniversary of Jek...2022-01-2557 min