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115 - Don't Do This Alone! The Importance of Community for Creating Sustainable Change
Episode 115
In this episode, Sharona and Boz dive into the essential role of community in grading reform. They reflect on their own journeys—Boz beginning with a…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
114 - Grading What Matters: Leveraging Extrinsic Motivation to Grow Students in Multiple Dimensions
Episode 114
In this week's episode, Sharona and Boz sit down with Marc Aronson, Dean of Academics at Cheshire Academy in Cheshire, CT. This fascinating conversat…
7 months ago
113 - Experience First, Formalize Later: How switching to standards-based grading schoolwide enabled drastic change in the classroom, with Jen Smielewski
Episode 113
In this episode, Sharona and Boz sit down with Jen Smielewski, a math teacher at Avondale High School. Jen works with Doug Wilson, the principal at A…
7 months, 1 week ago
112 - Squaring the Circle: Excellence vs Expertise with Jeff Anderson
Episode 112
In this episode, Sharona and Boz welcome Jeff Anderson back to the pod to talk about power, excellence, expertise, and how to work within grading str…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
111 - Getting Unstuck from the Grade Wrap-Up: The Importance of Purpose Redux
Episode 111
In this episode, Sharona and Boz look at another common area where instructors get stuck when redesigning a course to use alternative grading - the f…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
110 - Developing Your Assessments Through the Lens of Competencies, with Camp from NEIA
Episode 110
In this episode, Sharona and Boz speak with Camp (Dr. John Camp), the head of teaching and Learning at NEIA, the New England Innovation Academy. NEIA…
8 months ago
109 - Live from MathFest 2025: Trends, thoughts, and directions
Episode 109
Sharona sits down with MathFest 2025 attendees Drew Lewis, Jennifer Moorehouse, Lipika Deka, Jennifer Narang, and Cory Wilson to discuss what we hear…
8 months, 1 week ago
108 - The Importance of Purpose: Getting Unstuck in the Course Redesign Cycle
Episode 108
In this episode of The Grading Podcast, Sharona and Boz talk about some common reasons instructors get stuck during the process of redesigning a cour…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
107 - Transitioning to Alternative Grading Can Take Time to Be Successful: The Importance of Longer Term Metrics
Episode 107
In this episode, Sharona and Boz explore a recent article from EdWeek in which a middle school principal shares the motivations behind a switch to st…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
106 - Reflecting on a six-week summer course with Dr. Robert Talbert.
Episode 106
In this episode, Dr. Robert Talbert returns to the pod to reflect on how his six-week summer course in discrete math went. Robert talked about this c…
8 months, 4 weeks ago