Season 2: Episode 4 - Grading Less with Nick Covington
Description
Nick Covington teaches high school Social Studies in Ankeny, Iowa public schools, and promotes progressive education across the board in his classroom. Nick aims to reestablish the idea of what school could be to one of student-centered success that relies on their ideas and knowledge, instead of a dictated “future ready” curriculum.
References from this episode:
Nick Covington (https://twitter.com/CovingtonEDU)
Human Restoration Project (https://twitter.com/HumResPro), (https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/)
"The Three Body Problem" by Cixin Liu (LINK)
"The Book of Learning and Forgetting" by Frank Smith (LINK)
Connect:
Michael Crawford, PhD (https://twitter.com/mjcraw), (https://www.mjcraw.com)
Dr. Jane Shore (https://twitter.com/shorejaneshore)
School of Thought (https://schoolofthought.substack.com/)
Revolution School (https://revolutionschool.org/)
Community of Thought Gatherings (https://www.paispa.org/community-of-thought-gatherings)
Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools (PAIS) (https://www.paispa.org/)
Michael Lipset, PhD of PassTell Stories (http://www.michaellipset.com/)
Music from Digi G'Alessio CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://bit.ly/2IyV71i)
United States
