Remaking the Grade

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The understanding between teachers and students has traditionally been a one-way street, what happens when the conversation changes and students are encouraged to participate?

This is the premise behind grading contracts, a redesigned educational experience between teachers and students that promotes dialog and collaboration over a rote syllabus of expectations and assignments. Through this lens, instructors are able to cast off many ingrained—and often invisible—biases surrounding language, rhetoric, and understanding.

Communications Professor Erin Briddick will lead us in a discussion surrounding grading contracts and their impact on equitable assessment, relationship design between teachers and students, and decolonization in the classroom. Erin’s empathy-focused implementation of these ideas explores the experiences of students tasked with designing their own education and the benefits of this innovative, collaborative process.