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Founder and executive director
@growbeyondgrades.org
. Exploring what’s possible in education.
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I have to say, following friends made on that other site, I am so happy to see all your smiling faces. Sounds silly—it’s just a site—but I’m excited to maybe hang out again somewhere that isn’t the online equivalent of a post-apocalyptic shopping mall.
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Karis Jones
9 days ago
Congratulations Sharlyn! It was a pleasure to see this piece develop and now featured on
@growbeyondgrades.org
. Bookmark this insightful essay for high schoolers struggling with how they measure up on externally determined scales.
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Chris Morran
2 months ago
“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."
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Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua
Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.
https://www.wmtw.com/article/winooski-vermont-schools-superintendent-detained/65486891
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Grow Beyond Grades
4 months ago
🕐 ONE WEEK LEFT! Students: How have grades—or the lack of them—shaped your learning or growth? All genres & formats welcome ✍️ Cash prizes 💸 Chance to be published 📚
growbeyondgrades.org/contest
#gradeless
#ungrading
#growbeyondgrades
@humanrestorationproject.org
@gotlearning.bsky.social
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Contest — Grow Beyond Grades
https://growbeyondgrades.org/contest
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Grow Beyond Grades
6 months ago
✍️ PLEASE SHARE WITH HS & COLLEGE-AGE STUDENTS! 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
#gradeless
#growbeyondgrades
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Contest — Grow Beyond Grades
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Grow Beyond Grades
7 months ago
Is it too much to imagine schools where students’ learning, growth, strengths, and identities can be acknowledged, celebrated, even shared—without the stifling influences of standardization and measurement?
@achiaravalli.bsky.social
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We Need to Talk About Standards-based Grading — Grow Beyond Grades
While standards-based grading purports to put the focus squarely on learning, practitioners have noted how this is not always the reality. Arthur Chiaravalli points out the ways that SBG “has at times...
https://www.growbeyondgrades.org/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-sbg?1
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Chris Sarkonak
7 months ago
Amazing Student Power Summit in Ohio! I’ve learned so much the last couple days and was honored to be a presenter! It was great to meet a couple of huge inspirations on my
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journey,
@johannabrown.bsky.social
and
@achiaravalli.bsky.social
! I wouldn’t be where I am w/o
@growbeyondgrades.org
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Nick Covington
7 months ago
The TG2 community was my entry into progressive education systems & so many friendships I've held dear to this day. Many years, a career change, and TG2's own transformation into
@growbeyondgrades.org
later, the
@humrespro.bsky.social
gang finally got to hang out with
@achiaravalli.bsky.social
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Columbus-bound to present 'Why Grow Beyond Grades' at the Student Power Summit this weekend. Looking forward to meeting up with the likes of
@chrismcnutt.bsky.social
and
@covingtonedu.bsky.social
of
@humrespro.bsky.social
,
@johannabrown.bsky.social
,
@csarkonak.bsky.social
. See you soon!
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Mariana Morales
7 months ago
Nuevo podcast
@professinotas.bsky.social
📣 Hoy 3 estudiantes de Bachillerato
@learnlife.bsky.social
nos hablan de su autonomía, su pasión por aprender y su sentido de comunidad. No os perdáis este nuevo episodio inspirador
sinnotas.es/2025/03/01/e...
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Grow Beyond Grades
7 months ago
📢 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
http://growbeyondgrades.org/contest?123
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Dr Susan D Blum
8 months ago
I just enjoyed the most wonderful 75 minutes with brilliant, committed, compassionate colleagues! Thank you so much
@growbeyondgrades.org
and
@achiaravalli.bsky.social
! The topic was
#ungrading
, but so much more!
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Hope you can join us!
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Mariana Morales
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La evaluación o es inclusiva o carece de validez
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Carla Meyrink
8 months ago
I'm writing about our school-wide move to grading less through SBG & student self-assessment. I'd love you're feedback!
#EduSky
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Grow Beyond Grades
8 months ago
📢 We're writing a book! 📖✨ But instead of working in silence, we’re inviting our community to be part of the process. Join our Community Gathering on Feb. 15 (11 AM–12 PM ET)! 📚 RSVP here!
growbeyondgrades.org/events/15feb...
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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...
https://growbeyondgrades.org/events/15feb25-community-gathering
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Dr. Rita Shah
8 months ago
Looking forward to this! Gonna be talking about a part of my ungrading journey I’ve yet to write about.
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Starting in 30 minutes! Here's the direct link. We'll let you in if your email doesn't look too suspicious!
@mariana-morales.bsky.social
@helopait.bsky.social
@rhonhigg.bsky.social
@themcw.bsky.social
@davefrangiosa.bsky.social
@gregpask.bsky.social
calendar.app.google/4gPXCwGefLGB...
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Mariana Morales
8 months ago
Hay personas y proyectos a quienes no puedo decir que no... Así que ahí ando otra vez enredada, escribiendo en inglés con
@bpalop.bsky.social
sobre lo que hemos aprendido estos tres años con el podcast
@professinotas.bsky.social
. Gracias,
@achiaravalli.bsky.social
por esta iniciativa
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Grow Beyond Grades
8 months ago
📢 We’re writing a book! 📖✨ But instead of working in silence, we’re inviting our community to be part of the process. Join our Community Gatherings on Feb. 8 & 15 (11 AM–12 PM ET)! 📚 RSVP here!
growbeyondgrades.org/events/08feb...
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Community Gathering - We’re Writing a Book! (Part 1) — 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...
https://growbeyondgrades.org/events/08feb2025-community-gathering
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Maha Bali, PhD
8 months ago
Someone interviewed me recently about my alternative grading practices and what influenced me to move away from traditional grading - and I realized my experiences of oppression (1st and 2nd hand) influence this so strongly. I don't think I realized it until I articulated it.
#ungrading
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Chris Sarkonak
8 months ago
Very excited that it's just 1.5 months until the Student Power Summit in Ohio! I feel very honored to be presenting alongside
@achiaravalli.bsky.social
,
@covingtonedu.bsky.social
,
@johannabrown.bsky.social
, and so many more that I've learned so much from over the years! Can't wait to learn and grow!
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Grow Beyond Grades
8 months ago
Did you hear? We’re officially a 501(c)(3) nonprofit! That means we need a Board. We are incredibly humbled by this group of educators who believed in our vision enough to join us. Take a moment to bask in their brilliance—you’ll be glad you did!
growbeyondgrades.org/board
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Board of Directors — Grow Beyond Grades
https://growbeyondgrades.org/board
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Grow Beyond Grades
9 months ago
“I keep bumping up against a stubborn, inconvenient truth: It has been easier to help people grade less in a traditionally graded system than in a standards-based one.”
@achiaravalli.bsky.social
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Can Standards-based Grading Grade Less? — Grow Beyond Grades
Most would consider standards-based grading part of the gradeless continuum. But it has been easier to help people grade less in a traditionally graded system than in a standards-based one. Finding wa...
https://growbeyondgrades.org/blog/can-sbg-grade-less?1
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Martin Compton
9 months ago
Rah! I wrote this when I was still at UCL - nearly two years ago I think. Just re-read it and I stand by most of it. What’s most disconcerting is how little we’ve moved on the imperatives I defined
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Marcus Luther
9 months ago
At some point people are going to look back at this current era of education and wonder why there was so much emphasis on getting one type of screen out of the hands of students only to have so much time in the classroom be spent...staring at another screen.
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Grow Beyond Grades
9 months ago
Is it too much to imagine schools where students’ learning, growth, strengths, and identities can be acknowledged, celebrated, even shared—without the stifling influences of standardization and measurement?
@achiaravalli.bsky.social
www.growbeyondgrades.org/blog/we-need...
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We Need to Talk About Standards-based Grading — Grow Beyond Grades
While standards-based grading purports to put the focus squarely on learning, practitioners have noted how this is not always the reality. Arthur Chiaravalli points out the ways that SBG “has at times...
https://www.growbeyondgrades.org/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-sbg?1
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Karis Jones
9 months ago
It’s here: “Fandoms in the Classroom” now in print!
@scottstorm.bsky.social
and I are excited to reveal that our foreword was written by none other than
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
— we are so grateful to you and excited to be in conversation about fandoms & classrooms!
#literacies
#newrelease
#EduSky
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Grow Beyond Grades
9 months ago
Neither assessment nor learning are neutral or benign practices, and continuing to treat them as such leads to the reproduction of inequalities and symbolic violence.
@ameenapayne.bsky.social
&
@janmcarthur.bsky.social
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/care-full-feedback
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A Womanist Approach to Care-full Feedback — Grow Beyond Grades
Scholars Ameena L. Payne and Jan McArthur propose womanist thought as a praxis that re-positions feedback as a care-full process embracing the emotional, moral, and political as well as one that leans...
https://growbeyondgrades.org/blog/care-full-feedback
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Grow Beyond Grades
9 months ago
Just a reminder that we are LIVE w/Mike Rutherford of
@gotlearning.bsky.social
NOW! YouTube:
youtube.com/watch?v=OwjCLX68JdE
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/events/wherethelearninghappensw-mikeru7280233041170427904/theater/
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/groups/27718...
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Grow Beyond Grades
9 months ago
My mindset is more 'show me what you know or are curious about' rather than 'let’s find what you don’t know.'
@gregpask.bsky.social
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Why I Don’t Give Exams (And What I Use Instead) — Grow Beyond Grades
As a biology professor who has gone gradeless in favor of a labor-based approach, Greg Pask has moved away from exams entirely. Whether at the introductory or 300 level, he has found that tests don’t ...
https://growbeyondgrades.org/blog/why-no-exams
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Grow Beyond Grades
9 months ago
The traditional approach to MTSS draws lines between students, categorizing them by their perceived needs and inadvertently fostering a deficit-based mindset that opposed the district’s desired focus on equity.
@davidekirkland.bsky.social
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MT4S and the Power of Strengths-based Design — Grow Beyond Grades
Dr. David E. Kirkland discusses the Multi-Tier System of Sustaining Strengths and Support (MT4S) model, which underscores a critical shift from remediation to celebration, from merely navigating learn...
https://www.growbeyondgrades.org/blog/mt4s-strengths-based-design
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Grow Beyond Grades
9 months ago
🎙️ Excited to host Mike Rutherford on the GBG podcast! Join hosts
@davefrangiosa.bsky.social
&
@themcw.bsky.social
as we explore how
@gotlearning.bsky.social
is transforming student-teacher interactions—without grades! 📚
#EdTech
#LearningInnovation
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/01-25ru...
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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...
https://growbeyondgrades.org/blog/01-25rutherford
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Another related phenomenon,
@karismjones.bsky.social
: this ‘washing back’ also occurs with schools that CAN imagine another way to teach. Just talked with a friend who teaches in a public Montessori… Tests not only have the power to *shape*; they *deform*. Great article! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Grow Beyond Grades
9 months ago
Sometimes teachers don’t even realize that their instruction is being shaped by standardized tests. Sometimes they just can’t imagine another way to teach!
@karismjones.bsky.social
www.growbeyondgrades.org/blog/resisti...
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Resisting Pedagogies Washing Back from Standardized Testing — Grow Beyond Grades
When you know what standardized assessment washback is, you can see ways that it creeps into our everyday pedagogies and narrows what kind of learning we aim to support. Even if your students have to ...
https://www.growbeyondgrades.org/blog/resisting-pedagogies-washing-back-from-standardized-testing
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Peter Murphy
9 months ago
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics
#teaching
#education
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Greg Pask
10 months ago
Yes, all of this! Freedom to fail without punishment is critical for the learning process and, turns out, how learning outside of school walls works!
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Grow Beyond Grades
10 months ago
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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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?
https://growbeyondgrades.org/blog/opportunity-for-failure
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Phil Christman
10 months ago
“What I’d like, of course, is a case that easily justifies my job to the people who want to get rid of it. Unfortunately this is probably impossible. You cannot finally justify yourself to nihilists”
www.plough.com/en/topics/co...
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Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?
Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/does-teaching-literature-and-writing-have-a-future
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Rick Wormeli
10 months ago
Vanessa Ellis gets to the heart of good assessment & reporting here (Thanks,
@growbeyondgrades.org
for posting). It's worth the read and discussion. We're always going to need to report students' learning progression, and it's even more impactful when sts themselves do the monitoring & reporting.
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Grow Beyond Grades
10 months ago
Going gradeless. Sounds so empowering, right? But for many, going entirely gradeless is not a possibility in their teaching contexts. —Vanessa Ellis
#gbg
#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...
https://growbeyondgrades.org/blog/not-yet-gradeless-grading-less
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Chanea Bond
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There must be experts, not rich men and politicians, leading the charge for innovation. Those experts should all have extensive study in the humanities. An absence of humane expertise is so, so dangerous.
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Grow Beyond Grades
10 months ago
Start of your December on the right foot! ❄️ 🗓️
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Grow Beyond Grades
10 months ago
We’ve got to give up our obsession with measurement. It’s destroying our kids, it’s destroying our teachers, it’s destroying our ability to deliberate, to think deeply, to participate in democratic society.
@achiaravalli.bsky.social
#ungrading
#ungradingchat
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What’s It Going to Take for Us to Dump the Tests? — Grow Beyond Grades
As schools reconvened on Thursday, January 7, many teachers faced two tasks: helping students make sense of yet another traumatizing “day after”—and getting them prepared for end-of-semester tests.
https://growbeyondgrades.org/blog/dump-the-tests
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Tim Chambers
10 months ago
My take on the current Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon/Fediverse Landscape:
www.timothychambers.net/2024/11/28/a...
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A Quick Snapshot of the Microblogging Landscape
So given the post-election swell of BlueSky and Threads…and a far more modest but existent swell of new users to the Fediverse, it feels like the battle to be a non-X/Twitter microblogging solution is...
https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/11/28/a-quick-snapshot.html
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Dr Susan D Blum
10 months ago
Check out this list of folks who question bus-as-usual in acad assessment (&, usu, everything else too)! I know there's a tendency to dismiss "progressive" edu as insufficiently radical/disruptive. But for those who want revol but still work in schools...
#ungrading
#AlternativeAssessment
#EduSky
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