The Gradeless Classroom: The Greatest Teacher
I've been reading end of year posts. They are everywhere. Best of lists, books to read in 2018, #oneword posts, reflections on successes and learning experiences, and so on and so forth... And I just feel like... a failure. The beginning of 2017 found me optimistically charging into the future, armed with a 125-book Goodreads challenge, a resolve to better use social media for professional learning, a list of ideas to implement in the classroom, and a copy of Ron Chernow's Hamilton , to read outside of my comfort zone. The 2017-18 school year started in much the same way, with a dramatically enlarged classroom library, a newly renovated learning space, a better plan for going gradeless, and a blog that people were actually starting to read. I had high hopes to continue posting at least once a week, high hopes to change readers and writers, high hopes to continue becoming the teacher, learner, and human I want to be. And here I stand at the turning of the year. Looking