🔥 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 8:00am Pacific and 11:00am 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 Connect with Teachers on Fire and Host Tim Cavey: On X @TeachersOnFire (https://X.com/TeachersOnFire) On Facebook @TeachersOnFire (https://www.facebook.com/TeachersOnFire/) On YouTube @Teachers On Fire (https://www.youtube.com/@teachersonfire) On LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/timwcavey/ Visit the home of Teachers on Fire at https://teachersonfire.net/. Song Track Credit Tropic Fuse by French Fuse GO! by Neffex *All songs retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/teachersonfire/support