isea A Brief History of Grades and Gradeless Learning The incredibly named I.E. Finklestein once said, When we consider the practically universal use in all educational institutions of a system of marks, whether numbers or letters, to indicate Chris McNutt 8 Aug 2022 • 8 min read
isea ISEA: Excerpt: The Inner Level The following is an excerpt from The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone's Wellbeing by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, Chapter 9: Greater Chris McNutt 14 Jul 2022 • 6 min read
isea ISEA: Excerpt: Teaching to Transgress The following is an excerpt from Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks, Chapter 2: In retrospect, I see that in the last twenty years I have encountered many folks who Chris McNutt 14 Jul 2022 • 3 min read
isea ISEA: Personality Test Much of our perspective on teaching is related to the type of student that we were in school. Read the following five “types” of students and decide which category best Chris McNutt 14 Jul 2022 • 1 min read
isea What Does it Mean to Lead a Liberatory, Feedback-Driven Classroom? “Unprecedented” is a word that somehow manages to overstate and diminish every era, and its overuse in the last five years - let alone the last five months - should Nick Covington 14 Jul 2022 • 2 min read