This whole thread but I'm going to take the opportunity to hype up #ungrading and self-promo this piece @j9love.bsky.social and I wrote. We emphasize feedback and give students ownership over grades. 1/2

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Shamelessly promoting my work w/ @j9love.bsky.social Different discipline but we draw on the book @texasinafrica.bsky.social suggested. We have suggestions on how to scaffold. You can still shift assignments/ incorporate elements of ungrading before going all in.
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FFS the Chronicle just spiked my blood pressure with this headline. (It's just about routine classroom observations)

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here

Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

Vol 3 Issue 1 - Promoting Social Justice

💡Innovative & equitable-focused pedagogy paired with practical applications

Ungrading: Socially Just Assessment Practices for the PA Classroom By: Jeannine M. Love @j9love.bsky.social & Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social
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Some of my winter break reading to prepare for the semester—and this Administration.

It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away

Student reached out earlier today to find out if ICE could raid schools. Told them it was currently prohibited but that would probably change. Less than an hour later I had to write back to give them this terrifying update.

This is literally how fascism works.

Teaching a course on white nationalism this semester. That inaugural speech will pair perfectly with this reading on authoritarian tactics.

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Just started reading @liznorell.bsky.social’s book. The intro brought to mind lessons I’ve learned over the years about authenticity and presence in the midst and aftermath of trauma. 1/11

Absolutely love what @jessifer.bsky.social has to say about ungrading. His work deeply influenced my own ungrading approach and my work with @j9love.bsky.social. Our paper just came out and I will add that link in a follow-up post. 1/2

This was a fascinating article. I added several of their suggestions to my classes this semester. Explained it to my first class today and they were really, really interested in the process. Kudos to the authors (and thanks to their students for all the eval feedback)!

The word "ungrading" is an active present participle. It doesn't mean "not grading." Ungrading acknowledges the existence of grades and invites systemic critique, an undoing or thoughtful dismantling. Not best practices, but fluid, contextual practices to push against an insidious culture of grades.

📣📣📣 Our ungrading paper is officially out. Check out this work w/ @j9love.bsky.social in @jsepajournal.bsky.social. We must match what we teach to how we teach it, sharing power with students & fostering participatory practices. 1/5
#ungradingchat #academicsky #pasky
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🚨Our paper on ungrading is out!🚨

In this @jamielevdan.bsky.social and I address why traditional grading is antithetical to a socially just classroom & give how-to suggestions for matching how we teach with what we teach. 1/7

#ungrading #academicsky
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🎤 Is this thing on?
I'm a little late to the party, it seems, but I'm here.