Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to ditch the red pen and begin ‘ungrading’. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Jessica Zeller, a professor of dance.

In our conversation we discuss:

1️⃣ What ungrading looks like in her dance history and dance methodology classrooms

2️⃣ How ungrading creates an environment for engaged, risk-taking, and honest students

3️⃣ Getting students to do the thinking instead of teachers doing the thinking for them

Links to explore:

• Jessica’s website: www.jessicazeller.net

• Her twitter: @jessicazeller

• My blog post on considering ungrading in the world language classroom, with links to some language learning-specific resources.

• If you want to learn more about going gradeless, I recommend starting with Jesse Stommel’s “Ungrading: A Bibliography”

• You can also check-out Lesson: Impossible’s episode “Going Gradeless” with Agent Katelynn Giordano