Vanessa Ellis interviews Jesse on his new book, Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop, and then opens the floor to questions from participants. Participants will be entered in a drawing to receive a signed copy of Undoing the Grade!

We gradeless teachers tend to put a high premium on reflection. We’ve likely heard the quote attributed to John Dewey: “We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.” Does your department, school, or district carve out time for this all-important element of the learning process? Well, we at TG2 think it’s important, especially if you’ve dipped your toe into gradeless waters this year.

With half the academic year gone, it’s a perfect time to take stock of how your gradeless journey has gone so far. Whether you just dipped a toe or dove in head first, we’d like to hear how it’s going…and offer our help! This month our breakout rooms feature gradeless educators who will field questions and facilitate discussion. We’ve tried to cover several bases with educators representing different subject areas and levels.

Because ungrading is essentially a liberatory practice, it cannot be held to one formula or single standard. Instead, ungrading relies on a robust community of educators to circulate, celebrate, and elevate the practice in its various forms. Lisa Wennerth, welcomes four trailblazing educators, whose upcoming article “Why There Isn’t One ‘Right Way’ to Practice Ungrading” posits ungrading as a fundamentally open, welcoming, and responsive practice for all—not just the elite few.

Ekta Sahasi is the Founder of spikeview, a global pre-professional portfolio platform for students and young adults. She is reinventing how Gen-Z represent themselves online, build meaningful networks, and forge a pathway to success.

Aaron Blackwelder, co-founder of Teachers Going Gradeless, is a Washington State Teacher of the Year candidate, a Washington State English Teacher Fellow, boys and girls golf coach, and a contributor to Spectrum Magazine.

What questions do you have about going gradeless? Join Arthur as we discuss questions about going gradeless.

What questions do you have about going gradeless? Join Aaron as we discuss questions about going gradeless.

What questions do you have about going gradeless? Join Arthur as we discuss questions about going gradeless.

Sherri Spelic teaches elementary physical education at American International School Vienna. She has written extensively on topics related to education, identity, and power and among other things publishes a monthly social justice newsletter for educators Bending The Arc. Check out her book of essays, Care At The Core or find her on Twitter @edifiedlistener.

What questions do you have about going gradeless? Join Aaron as we discuss questions about going gradeless.

What questions do you have about going gradeless? Join Arthur as we discuss questions about going gradeless.

Rachael Kettner Thompson is a middle school science teacher in Eastern Washington whose blog post Learning Journeys: Communicating Progress in the Gradeless Classroom demonstrates how to empower students to share their own learning.

Join us this week as we learn how to foster student metacognition in the gradeless classroom.

What questions do you have about going gradeless? Join Aaron as we discuss questions about going gradeless.

Regardless of their level of academic success, all students have inherent strengths—whether those interests, experiences, or cultural funds of knowledge. Valuing these assets in assessment can help create classrooms built on belonging, responsiveness, and equity.

Rick Wormeli is an experienced classroom and building educator who now writes professional articles and education books educators around the world.

In this episode of TG2Chat Live! Rick will discuss how educators can communicate learning with students and stakeholders.

How can we communicate learning? Quest Forward Academies educators Ed Vogel, MA, MFA & Jolene Zywica, Ph.D. lead us into new ways we can better share learning with students, parents, and other stakeholders.

Learning is the purpose of school. However, reporting learning can be complicated. This week, Lisa Wennerth and Aaron Blackwelder challenge participants to consider and share how they report learning to students, parents, and stakeholders.

Often there’s a very personal story at the heart of the decision to get away from grades. Arthur Chiaravalli joins Aaron Blackwelder this Sunday as #TG2Chat asks the question of why you gave up on grades, and what that journey has meant for you, your subject, and the students you teach.

Natalie Vardabasso is an instructional design and assessment specialist at Calgary Academy, a special education school in Alberta, Canada. She is the host of the #EduCrush podcast where she talks with educators, innovators, and activists who are reimagining education.

School culture isn’t inclusive by accident; it’s intentional. Assessment is one area where we can be intentionally inclusive, empowering all students to meet their potential.

Join Patti Forster and Natalie Vardabasso as #TG2Chat examines how assessment practices can be more inclusive.

What obligations do students have? What obligations do teachers have to their students?

Join Mike McAteer and Dave Eddy as #TG2Chat focuses on accountability in the gradeless classroom.

Join Aaron Blackwelder as he interviews Starr Sackstein, author of the book Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School, and her latest book Assessing with Respect: Everyday Practices That Meet Students' Social and Emotional Needs.

This will be a great conversation that you won’t want to miss.

Join Lauren Thurber and Rhonda Higgens as #TG2Chat focuses starting the year with clear learning outcomes.

In this edWebinar, Aaron Blackwelder and Arthur Chiaravalli, Founders of Teachers Going Gradeless, explore these effects and provide viable alternatives for more humane, effective approaches to assessment, feedback, and reporting that help students grow beyond grades.

Join Arthur Chiaravalli as he interviews Barry Fishman, author of a new introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of Wad-Ja-Get? a revolutionary classic on grading authored by Drs. Kirschenbaum, Simon, and Napier in 1971.

Arthur Chiaravalli joins Barry Fishman to discuss the “workarounds” gradeless teachers use as they wait for the infrastructure catches up with gradeless pedagogy.

Vanessa and Oliver Ellis co-moderate as we take time to reflect on this pandemic year, consider what lessons we’ve learned, and orient ourselves toward a better future for our students, our communities, and ourselves.