Point-less Grading in General:

• Traditional Grading vs. More Humanizing Assessment
• Collected articles about grading on Pinterest
• Teachers Going Gradeless Blog
• Going Gradeless in Urban Ed, Julia Torres
• The Case Against Grades, Alfie Kohn
• Ungrading: A Bibliography, Jesse Stommel
• Assessment for Learning Project
• Student plan for learning and growth

Point-less Grading in Language Arts:

• Grade Guidelines (LA 12 / AP Lit)
• Learning goals (AP Lit / AP Lang / 9th-12th grade)
• Some student-created checklists to guide reader feedback and revision.
• Anti-Racist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future, Asao B. Inoue (Inoue’s handout from a workshop on A Social Justice Framework for Anti-Racist Writing Assessment: Labor-Based Grading Contracts)
• Are Grades Getting in the Way of Student Learning? Statement, the journal for the Colorado Language Arts Society, Fall 2020
• my #StopGrading Blog Series on The Paper Graders
• Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment and Reimagining Writing Assessment: From Scales to Stories, Maja Wilson

Point-Less Grading in Science:

• My Classes are Pointless, Mr. Dr. Science Teacher
• Remaking the Grade: Interest grows in specifications grading, an approach to assessing students that could offer more transparency and consistency, Celia Henry Arnaud (college chemistry)

Point-Less Grading in Math:

• How to Create a Gradeless Math Classroom in a School that Requires Grades, 7th Grade Math with Mr. Burnett (video of a student conference here)

Teaching Writing:

• Revision assignment that emphasizes writing process over final products (12th grade)
• Revision task (10th grade)
• AP Lit prose analysis practice
• NYTimes collection of mentor texts
• On finding just right mentor texts from Moving Writers
• Weekly routine that protects time to write

Teaching Reading:

• Weekly reading Check-in form for independent reading (click here to generate your own copy to edit)
• Weekly routine that protects time to read

Workshop:

• my #WorkshopWorksForAP Blog Series on The Paper Graders
• Weekly routine that works for reading/writing workshop

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