Sorry I can't make it to #TheGradingConference today as I am slammed with closing out my 6-week summer course, two weekend gigs to prep music for, and a rehearsal on Saturday for which I was given 20 songs to learn three days ago. Blah blah blah. Y'all enjoy.
June 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Sorry I can't make it to #TheGradingConference today as I am slammed with closing out my 6-week summer course, two weekend gigs to prep music for, and a rehearsal on Saturday for which I was given 20 songs to learn three days ago. Blah blah blah. Y'all enjoy.
In yesterday's session "Special Topics: Equity" at #TheGradingConference, Robert Erdmann shared research showing equitable outcomes of dropped grade policies...
June 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In yesterday's session "Special Topics: Equity" at #TheGradingConference, Robert Erdmann shared research showing equitable outcomes of dropped grade policies...
Three awesome talks in "Research: Student Perceptions" at #TheGradingConference.
Across different institutions and even types of #AltGrading, students GET IT. They see how alt grading aligns more with true learning, and their views of it only become more positive after experiencing it.
Across different institutions and even types of #AltGrading, students GET IT. They see how alt grading aligns more with true learning, and their views of it only become more positive after experiencing it.
June 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Three awesome talks in "Research: Student Perceptions" at #TheGradingConference.
Across different institutions and even types of #AltGrading, students GET IT. They see how alt grading aligns more with true learning, and their views of it only become more positive after experiencing it.
Across different institutions and even types of #AltGrading, students GET IT. They see how alt grading aligns more with true learning, and their views of it only become more positive after experiencing it.
Session "Special topics: Neurodiversity" at #TheGradingConference:
@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.
@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.
June 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Session "Special topics: Neurodiversity" at #TheGradingConference:
@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.
@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.
Semi-live skeeting #TheGradingConference 2025:
Asao Inoue Keynote: 🤯
What really resonated with me: He said he really wanted to get students thinking about the PROCESS of their writing over the PRODUCT of their writing.
Asao Inoue Keynote: 🤯
What really resonated with me: He said he really wanted to get students thinking about the PROCESS of their writing over the PRODUCT of their writing.
June 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Semi-live skeeting #TheGradingConference 2025:
Asao Inoue Keynote: 🤯
What really resonated with me: He said he really wanted to get students thinking about the PROCESS of their writing over the PRODUCT of their writing.
Asao Inoue Keynote: 🤯
What really resonated with me: He said he really wanted to get students thinking about the PROCESS of their writing over the PRODUCT of their writing.
Just in time for the start of 2025’s #TheGradingConference tomorrow! (And yes, I stitched this during last year’s conference. 😂) #BreakFakeRules
June 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just in time for the start of 2025’s #TheGradingConference tomorrow! (And yes, I stitched this during last year’s conference. 😂) #BreakFakeRules
Latest installment of cross stitch pieces inspired by #TheGradingConference. Love!! 😍
(This would have been finished way earlier, but I ran out of the right thread on my DC trip last week 😭)
(This would have been finished way earlier, but I ran out of the right thread on my DC trip last week 😭)
July 4, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Latest installment of cross stitch pieces inspired by #TheGradingConference. Love!! 😍
(This would have been finished way earlier, but I ran out of the right thread on my DC trip last week 😭)
(This would have been finished way earlier, but I ran out of the right thread on my DC trip last week 😭)
Another amazing #TheGradingConference is in the books. So much love to this unbelievably generous and welcoming community!!
Now time to collapse....
Now time to collapse....
Sleepy Time For Bed GIF
Alt: Ariel snuggling into her pillow
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June 15, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Another amazing #TheGradingConference is in the books. So much love to this unbelievably generous and welcoming community!!
Now time to collapse....
Now time to collapse....
Loving this "menu" of alt grading options from Veronica Berns at #TheGradingConference!!
June 14, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Loving this "menu" of alt grading options from Veronica Berns at #TheGradingConference!!
Today's reminder from #TheGradingConference chat:
June 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Today's reminder from #TheGradingConference chat:
Wonderful reflection going on in #TheGradingConference keynote from Dr. Leila McCloud, asking us to consider Why me?, Why This?, Why now?
#ungrading #AltGrading
#ungrading #AltGrading
June 13, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Wonderful reflection going on in #TheGradingConference keynote from Dr. Leila McCloud, asking us to consider Why me?, Why This?, Why now?
#ungrading #AltGrading
#ungrading #AltGrading
Take a look at #TheGradingConference as a model. Math/sci profs started it as a virtual conference. It's evolved into a nonprofit ( The Center for Grading Reform). I have attended 4x. It is organized, engaging, and just what a conference should be.
July 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Take a look at #TheGradingConference as a model. Math/sci profs started it as a virtual conference. It's evolved into a nonprofit ( The Center for Grading Reform). I have attended 4x. It is organized, engaging, and just what a conference should be.
Huge shoutout to the Colorado School of Mines for implementing alt grading in 24 courses across the curriculum - this is an amazing model for educational transformation! Having supportive leadership and collaboration is key #TheGradingConference Panel 1.3D 👏👏
June 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Huge shoutout to the Colorado School of Mines for implementing alt grading in 24 courses across the curriculum - this is an amazing model for educational transformation! Having supportive leadership and collaboration is key #TheGradingConference Panel 1.3D 👏👏
Today is the day! The 2025 #TheGradingConference begins at 11:00 am ET 👏 We have close to 900 registered participants! This conference aims to educate, collaborate, and advance grading practices to make them more equitable and support student success. www.centerforgradingreform.org/grading-conf...
The Grading Conference
www.centerforgradingreform.org
June 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Today is the day! The 2025 #TheGradingConference begins at 11:00 am ET 👏 We have close to 900 registered participants! This conference aims to educate, collaborate, and advance grading practices to make them more equitable and support student success. www.centerforgradingreform.org/grading-conf...
I love this so much!
"Alternative Grading is about finding alternative ways to highlight the innate brilliance of our students."
--Dr. Jeff Anderson at #TheGradingConference
"Alternative Grading is about finding alternative ways to highlight the innate brilliance of our students."
--Dr. Jeff Anderson at #TheGradingConference
June 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I love this so much!
"Alternative Grading is about finding alternative ways to highlight the innate brilliance of our students."
--Dr. Jeff Anderson at #TheGradingConference
"Alternative Grading is about finding alternative ways to highlight the innate brilliance of our students."
--Dr. Jeff Anderson at #TheGradingConference
"Changes [and therefore learning] doesn't happen on school schedules. Changes [learning] happens in students' schedules."
Dr. Jeff Anderson in our final keynote at #TheGradingConference
Dr. Jeff Anderson in our final keynote at #TheGradingConference
June 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Changes [and therefore learning] doesn't happen on school schedules. Changes [learning] happens in students' schedules."
Dr. Jeff Anderson in our final keynote at #TheGradingConference
Dr. Jeff Anderson in our final keynote at #TheGradingConference
"Liking is not a feeling. It is a *set of practices* that leads to a feeling"
Really great and thought-provoking talk from Asou Inoue this morning. #TheGradingConference
Really great and thought-provoking talk from Asou Inoue this morning. #TheGradingConference
From our keynote by Asao Inoue: "We need ways to like our students and their writing." #TheGradingConference
June 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Liking is not a feeling. It is a *set of practices* that leads to a feeling"
Really great and thought-provoking talk from Asou Inoue this morning. #TheGradingConference
Really great and thought-provoking talk from Asou Inoue this morning. #TheGradingConference
"Language is racialized --- and therefore so is grading"
🔥 Dr. Asou Inoue in the opening keynote at #TheGradingConference
🔥 Dr. Asou Inoue in the opening keynote at #TheGradingConference
June 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"Language is racialized --- and therefore so is grading"
🔥 Dr. Asou Inoue in the opening keynote at #TheGradingConference
🔥 Dr. Asou Inoue in the opening keynote at #TheGradingConference
Excited to hang out online with 900 of my closest friends at #TheGradingConference starting tomorrow!
June 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Excited to hang out online with 900 of my closest friends at #TheGradingConference starting tomorrow!
A lovely read ahead of #TheGradingConference in a few weeks.
I especially loved "a bunch of quantitative legalese masquerading as pedagogy" as a turn of phrase—perhaps because it so accurately describes where I, and probably many others, started.
I especially loved "a bunch of quantitative legalese masquerading as pedagogy" as a turn of phrase—perhaps because it so accurately describes where I, and probably many others, started.
"The work of ungrading is to push back on the culture of grades and quantitative assessment that reinforces hierarchies between students and teachers, while reducing both to a set of crude (often inscrutable) data points." www.jessestommel.com/the-practice...
The Practice of Ungrading
Ungrading inspects the inequities of schooling, asks hard questions of the structures of our schools, and offers a critique of the labor conditions for teachers at all levels of education.
www.jessestommel.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A lovely read ahead of #TheGradingConference in a few weeks.
I especially loved "a bunch of quantitative legalese masquerading as pedagogy" as a turn of phrase—perhaps because it so accurately describes where I, and probably many others, started.
I especially loved "a bunch of quantitative legalese masquerading as pedagogy" as a turn of phrase—perhaps because it so accurately describes where I, and probably many others, started.
Now thinking about the structures that will help us achieve those dreams #TheGradingConference. Reminding me of the session about values from @Anna_Santucci_ et al. yesterday -- making sure our pedagogy (including but not limited to grading) reflects our values and dreams.
November 3, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Now thinking about the structures that will help us achieve those dreams #TheGradingConference. Reminding me of the session about values from @Anna_Santucci_ et al. yesterday -- making sure our pedagogy (including but not limited to grading) reflects our values and dreams.
Dreaming with @gathwaegl at #TheGradingConference . The chat is flying by with great suggestions from @EmiDoesMath, @chsabatier, @EmPittsDonahoe, @CCreightonMath and many others (you'll have to check the recording for all these great ideas, I can't keep up).
November 3, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Dreaming with @gathwaegl at #TheGradingConference . The chat is flying by with great suggestions from @EmiDoesMath, @chsabatier, @EmPittsDonahoe, @CCreightonMath and many others (you'll have to check the recording for all these great ideas, I can't keep up).
"Happiness doesn't come from good grades" -- Important lessons from KPop! #TheGradingConference
November 3, 2024 at 6:16 PM
"Happiness doesn't come from good grades" -- Important lessons from KPop! #TheGradingConference
Kicking off Day 2 of #TheGradingConference with a keynote by @gathwaegl!
November 3, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Kicking off Day 2 of #TheGradingConference with a keynote by @gathwaegl!
Jane has been hanging out with me all morning at #TheGradingConference
June 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Jane has been hanging out with me all morning at #TheGradingConference