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The Surprise Growth in an Ungrading Practice: My Own

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2021

Reflections on the growth of one's practice through the use of ungrading.

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Julia Valenti is a full-stack engineer on Polaris Education. She builds AI-powered listening tools that help schools center student voice in decision-making.

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Eric is an English/Drama teacher at Sparhawk School in Amesbury, MA. He collaborates with artists, writers, actors, journalists, and other professionals to bring learning to life for students.

Power to the Students: Teaching Issue-Based Organizing

June 11, 2019

Why teach students to organize? I hear a lot about teachers “empowering” students. I always ask these teachers, “Cool, so what is your definition of power?”

Making Progress on Progressive Education: First Empower Teachers

March 20, 2019

At the heart of progressive pedagogy are questions about student motivation: How can teachers best motivate students? How can schools best motivate teachers?

Improvisation and the Transformative Potential of Play

March 8, 2019

Improvisational theater and its underlying progressive principles have the potential to transform school culture and reorient students and educators towards a more human and democratic approach to education.