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Ungrading: Why traditional grades sidetrack learning
In this episode, I’m joined by Arthur Chiaravalli, an educator at the heart of an organization called Grow Beyond Grades. Arthur shares his deeply personal journey away from traditional grading, revealing how it can undermine learning, sideline classroom relationships, and lead to passivity and apathy. He also talks about how freeing it is to deep-six grades while focusing attention on meaningful, collaborative assessment — that is, on truly human-centered teaching.
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