Grading for Growth

Six ways to use artificial intelligence tools in alternative grading

Three for faculty, three for students

Mar 2 • Robert Talbert

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February 2026

Building Community as a Catalyst

Advancing Alternative Grading in Speech-Language Pathology from the Ground Up

Feb 23 • Kerry Callahan Mandulak

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Pairs well with alternative grading

Supporting productive struggle by sending a consistent message

Feb 16 • David Clark

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Removing the Training Wheels

How I shifted toward student self-assessment and collaborative grading in a pre-professional program

Feb 9 • Ainsley Vergara

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Six things I no longer do with alternative grading

An exploration of addition by subtraction.

Feb 2 • Robert Talbert

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January 2026

Teaching through trauma

How Grading for Growth Helped Save my Sanity

Jan 26 • Acacia Ackles

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Three kinds of practice and how they relate to alternative grading

What kinds of practice are we encouraging or discouraging through our grading?

Jan 19 • Robert Talbert

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Communicating Effectively with Students about Alternative Grading

Helping students track their grade and understand its meaning

Jan 12 • Halley McCormick

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Thoughts for the new year

Bite-sized ideas on alternative grading in 2026

Jan 5 • David Clark

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December 2025

A holiday retrospective

Taking a break and looking back -- and forward

Dec 29, 2025 • Robert Talbert

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How to write clearly defined standards, revisited

Some perspective and a flowchart on this tricky and important process

Dec 22, 2025 • Robert Talbert

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Small changes to handle AI

What I did this semester to address AI use in one of my classes

Dec 15, 2025 • David Clark

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