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137 - Mild, Medium, Spicy: Gamifying Mastery in Grade 7 Math with Gabriel Despatie
Episode 137
Grade 7 math teacher Gabriel Despatie (Ontario) shares what happened when he tried to “overlay” standards-based grading onto nine years of refined te…
7 months ago
136 - Grading for Physicists, Not Point Collectors - with Chris Sarkonak
Episode 136
Chris Sarkonak—high school physics and math teacher in Brandon, Manitoba and a PhD student in educational assessment—joins Boz and Sharona to describ…
7 months, 1 week ago
135 - The Interaction of Alt Grading, Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, & Pedagogy of Kindness
Episode 135
In this episode, Boz and Sharona explore how trauma-informed pedagogy and “teaching with kindness” intersect with alternative grading, especially thr…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
134 - (Replay) Exploring Alt Grading in Physical Education (in more detail) with Josh Ogilvie
Episode 134
Due to unexpected technical difficulties we were unable to record a new episode for this week. We will be back with new episodes next week! In the me…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
133 - To Display (Grades) or Not To Display (Grades) - That is the Question!
Episode 133
In this episode of The Grading Podcast, Boz and Sharona dig into a 2025 longitudinal study that tackles a surprisingly practical question: should we …
7 months, 4 weeks ago
132 - New Semester, New Grading: Building Trust Before Content
Episode 132
A new semester is days away—and Sharona is stepping back into teaching precalculus for the first time in about a decade, this time with today’s alter…
8 months ago
131 - Why Now? The Urgency of Grading Reform in an AI-Saturated Era
Episode 131
Grading reform has been a decades-long effort—but in this episode, Sharona and Boz argue that it’s now urgent. They explore what’s changed: post-pand…
8 months, 1 week ago
130 - Rubric or Scoring Guide: Why Clarity Matters and How to Build Effective Rubrics
Episode 130
In this episode, Sharona and Boz discuss the recent grading controversy at the University of Oklahoma and use it as a launching point to focus on why…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
129 - (Replay) The Results are IN! Traditional Grading and Alternative Grading Went HEAD TO HEAD!!! What happened?
Episode 129
Happy New Year! We are taking a small break this week from releasing new episodes, so please enjoy our most popular episode from 2025. We'll be back …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
128 - (Replay)Visionary Leadership: Culture Change through Asking Questions - A 10-Year Journey to Building-Wide Grading Reform
Episode 128
Happy Holidays! We're taking the week off from recording, so enjoy this replay about visionary leadership!!
In this episode, Sharona and Boz interview…
9 months ago