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Empty Pedagogy, Behaviorism, and the Rejection of Equity

Empty Pedagogy, Behaviorism, and the Rejection of Equity

In our mission to be the best possible educators for young people, it is imperative that we understand the art and science of teaching beyond simple prescriptive ideas.

3 Dec 2021 • 20 min read

Can Activism Improve Arts Education?

Can Activism Improve Arts Education?

How culturally responsive pedagogy can save high school Drama class.

27 Nov 2021 • 7 min read

Class Discussions and Classroom Climate

Class Discussions and Classroom Climate

It might seem counterintuitive to be thinking about classroom climate now. It is around this time that we begin to increase the amount of assessments we assign, as students are asked to grapple more deeply with course inquiries, essential questions, content skills, and unit concepts.

24 Nov 2021 • 5 min read

Building Community and Trust In A Gradeless Classroom

Building Community and Trust In A Gradeless Classroom

Investment in relationships supports student voice and agency while fostering trust.

20 Oct 2021 • 5 min read

Home Free

Home Free

Too much school at home, too much work from home, and not enough school in school. Let’s reestablish some boundaries.

17 Oct 2021 • 3 min read

Unpacking "Neoliberal" Schooling, Part 3: Progressive Education: Enter the Matrix

Unpacking "Neoliberal" Schooling, Part 3: Progressive Education: Enter the Matrix

Instead of finding ways to fight fire with fire through more critique, we deviate from the norm in ways that confuse, conflate, and separate ourselves from the narrative. Baudrillard-inspired theorist Franco Berardi writes, "the best thing to do is to make friends with chaos."

25 Sep 2021 • 18 min read

Going Gradeless This Year? Just Thinking About It? Start Here.

Going Gradeless This Year? Just Thinking About It? Start Here.

Try these 3 strategies to get gradeless assessment practices going in your classes.

5 Aug 2021 • 6 min read

The Surprise Growth in an Ungrading Practice: My Own

The Surprise Growth in an Ungrading Practice: My Own

I found more growth in my own practice than I ever anticipated in my first full year of abandoning traditional grading systems.

5 Aug 2021 • 5 min read

A Primer for the Progressive Educator

A Primer for the Progressive Educator

To be a progressive educator is to never really leave behind that restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Sean Michael Morris

3 Aug 2021 • 13 min read

Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: How the Testing Industry Manufactured the "Learning Loss" Narrative

Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: How the Testing Industry Manufactured the "Learning Loss" Narrative

In the wake of pandemic schooling, the testing industry sees an opportunity to sell schools on assessments and interventions that line their pocket-books, but do their claims live up the cost?

2 Jul 2021 • 10 min read

Review: Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education

Review: Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education

Alex Shevrin Venet's Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education is a masterful work which inspires a systemic look at the injustices in classrooms, schools, and communities.

25 Jun 2021 • 6 min read

How Teachers Can Start a Grassroots Revolution for Better Schools

How Teachers Can Start a Grassroots Revolution for Better Schools

The Biden Administration offers a space for educators to demand transformation. But that does not mean that we can count on better outcomes coming from the federal government.

23 Jun 2021 • 4 min read

Binary Solutions to Systemic Problems

Binary Solutions to Systemic Problems

28 May 2021 • 12 min read

Review: We Do This 'Til We Free Us

Review: We Do This 'Til We Free Us

23 May 2021 • 10 min read

100 Days of Conversations: Amplifying Communities to Reimagine Education

100 Days of Conversations: Amplifying Communities to Reimagine Education

14 May 2021 • 4 min read

Review: Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Review: Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience

31 Mar 2021 • 5 min read

Gradeless: An English Teacher’s Journey Towards Agency Through Feedback

Gradeless: An English Teacher’s Journey Towards Agency Through Feedback

I knew I wanted to do my best to represent student growth in the most accurate way I possibly could. While I know my methods are far from perfect, I have seen remarkable growth and a complete shift in focus in my students.

19 Mar 2021 • 5 min read

Learning from Games: Making Decisions for Others

Learning from Games: Making Decisions for Others

Even the most well-intentioned changes can have horrific outcomes.

12 Mar 2021 • 5 min read

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