How not to waste a good catalyst.

Four Writing Strategies for the Anti-Academic Academic Writer

It’s Publication Day! 🎉 I’m celebrating with a book overview and some acknowledgments.

How we interpret what grades mean is at the heart of most (or all?) approaches to alternative grading.

There’s no one way.

I imagined, for a moment, what kind of place the world could be if we all had time for rest. The simple humanity of it.

If Ungrading, Understanding, and Justice were the three circles of a Venn diagram, Love would be at the center.

At the end of last year, a student said to me: “If you’re not expected to respond, you can really listen.” I can’t stop thinking about it.

I’m not worried about those of us who roll our eyes and snort at these destructive depictions of pedagogy. I’m worried about those of us who don’t.

Grades cause endless harm for no discernible benefit even in the best of times, and these times are… in an understatement… not the best.

Where is our humanity?