The Grading Podcast 73 - Alt Grading in the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences: An Interview with Annie and Ed Ransom (And our FIRST Alt Grading Love Story!)
Join us for one of the most fun origin stories we have had!!! On the pod this week we interview Annie and Ed Ransom, two K-12 educators who both use alt grading, while being married to each other! Hear how alt grading plays out in middle school and high school science and how it is both the same and different from high school Social Science.
Links
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- Seventeen Reasons Why Football is Better than High School, by Herb Childress
- EP&Cs: Just One More Thing I Was Wrong About, by Annie Ransom
- College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards
- Teacher Spotlight: Annie Ransom
- Annie Ransom, LinkedIn Profile
Resources
The Center for Grading Reform - seeking to advance education in the United States by supporting effective grading reform at all levels through conferences, educational workshops, professional development, research and scholarship, influencing public policy, and community building.
The Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.
Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:
Recommended Books on Alternative Grading:
- Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David Clark
- Specifications Grading, by Linda Nilsen
- Undoing the Grade, by Jesse Stommel
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Music
Country Rock performed by Lite Saturation, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.