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A Letter for Colleges: What If Your Students Were Learners First?

by Jay Stott Posted on December 15, 2012

Ran across this on the intertubes this morning at Joe Bower’s blog. It’s a model ‘letter’ a grade free school could use to send to colleges on behalf of its students, written by Alfie Kohn. I’ll just quote a part: … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Parent/Teacher Conferences, Part 1 (of 3 we hope)

by Sarah M. Zerwin Posted on October 14, 2012

I’m tired. Parent/Teacher conferences do that to me. It seems like it takes a few days to recover. And my recovery days this time around were an all-day field trip the next day, an evening conference the day after that, … Continue reading →

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Joe Bower and Rick Wormeli (video): There are bad ways and there are really bad ways to grade

by Jay Stott Posted on June 19, 2012

I’ve seen Wormeli speak, and on the whole I think he is a good gut. He is trying to point us in the right direction. Interesting video.   for the love of learning: There are bad ways and there are … Continue reading →

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The Root of the Problem

by Jay Stott Posted on June 14, 2012

Ahhhhh…summer. No, that’s not the problem. I just had to say that before getting to the point. A little head clearing relaxation goes a long way. We’re sitting in a coffee shop today having a Papergrader Summer Summit. One of … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on how technology can(not) help with the grading load

by Sarah M. Zerwin Posted on June 8, 2012

Here’s a thoughtful piece on grading from Bud Hunt: You Should Probably Just Grade Less | Bud the Teacher. Now that I’ve had some space from the hectic pace of the school year, I’m ready to re-think my approaches to … Continue reading →

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The thought of automated essay grading has always made me cringe…

by Sarah M. Zerwin Posted on April 21, 2012

Another thoughtful tidbit from Bud the teacher: What Automated Essay Grading Says To Children | Bud the Teacher.  

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Dorky literary allusion to Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations as a vehicle for discussing my role as an educator

by Paul Bursiek Posted on March 21, 2012

The educational bureaucracy wants simple, easy-to-read data, but students are human beings with complex intellectual and emotional needs. Can I serve both the system and my students? Try cramming a square peg into a round hole. Now imagine that the … Continue reading →

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Hitting the big time!

by Jay Stott Posted on March 21, 2012

The piece I wrote on TFA last week has been picked up by Alternet.org.   What Wendy Kopp Got Wrong With Teach For America | Education | AlterNet.   While enjoying my 15 minutes of fame, I can’t help but … Continue reading →

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Without Systemic Change, we Grade

by Sarah M. Zerwin Posted on March 15, 2012

Okay, Mister S. Finally I am responding to your response to my response to your post in response to my initial post about grading. Yep it appears we have started a blog war here. My apologies first and foremost for taking … Continue reading →

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Blog throwdown! “Grading” and other offensive words. Bonus tuba solo.

by Jay Stott Posted on March 2, 2012

Okay Z, it’s on! The post I was referring to, The Evolution of Grading, was, in fact, mostly about responding to student work. Readers who click the link will find that you have edited the language in the first line. … Continue reading →

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