🔥 What does it mean to grow beyond grades?

🔥 What works about standards-based grading, and where does it fall short?

🔥 How can we deemphasize grades and shift the focus to growth in our practice?

Join me for this conversation with assessment leader ARTHUR CHIARAVALLI as he shares his insights on these and other critical questions.

About This Guest: In his teaching career, Arthur has taught mathematics, language arts, media arts, and technology. He has a passion for helping teachers move toward more humane, effective approaches to assessment, feedback, and reporting that help students develop positive beliefs in their abilities. He is also the founder of Grow Beyond Grades, a global group of educators convinced that teaching and learning is better when we grade less.

Connect with Arthur

on Linkedin,

on X @iamchiaravalli, and

on growbeyondgrades.org.

Tune in for my regular Teachers on Fire interviews, airing LIVE on YouTube every Saturday morning at 8:00 am Pacific and 11:00 am Eastern! Join the conversation and add your comments to the broadcast.

In This Conversation:

0:29 - Who is Arthur Chiaravalli?

2:01 - Arthur's story: hitting an assessment rock bottom in Atlanta

5:49 - The wins and losses of SBG, or Standards-Based Grading

10:56 - Defining gradeless and the practice of grading less

13:40 - Arthur describes his first steps on the journey of grading less

19:55 - Benefits from de-emphasizing grades and focusing on growth

24:30 - Increasing student engagement and engagement

29:56 - Arthur's laments regarding traditional grading practices

36:47 - Why Teachers Going Gradeless became Grow Beyond Grades

39:15 - An update on Arthur's upcoming book

41:01 - What's next for the Grow Beyond Grades team

43:48 - Arthur's passion for family, exploring Vermont

44:34 - A productivity hack: Google apps and Calendar

45:24 - A book recommendation: The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin

46:33 - Someone to follow online: Human Restoration Project

47:54 - What Arthur's streaming: Martin Short videos on YouTube

49:04 - How to connect with Arthur online

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Visit the home of Teachers on Fire at https://teachersonfire.net/.

Song Track Credit

Tropic Fuse by French Fuse

GO! by Neffex

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