Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies
It’s Publication Day! 🎉 I’m celebrating with a book overview and some acknowledgments.
The Meanings of Grades
How we interpret what grades mean is at the heart of most (or all?) approaches to alternative grading.
Fuck Self-Care*: A Temporal Pedagogy for Rest
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.
Ungrading and Pedagogic Ontology: A Love Letter
If Ungrading, Understanding, and Justice were the three circles of a Venn diagram, Love would be at the center.
Listening as Pedagogic Praxis, or Putting My Head in a Paper Bag
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.
Neither Tiny nor Pretty: On Pedagogy, Possibility, and Why I’m So Tired
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.
Pedagogy for End Times: Ungrading and the Importance of Arson
Grades cause endless harm for no discernible benefit even in the best of times, and these times are… in an understatement… not the best.