Personal note: I’m posting this because a handful of graduate students separately insisted that I do so. This isn’t particularly well-researched or founded in anything other than my personal observations. The graduate students responsible for this were each frustrated that they couldn’t conform to their advisor’s expectations of their writing (to produce outlines, to have […]
My recent composition courses at LaGuardia have asked how experimenting with a classroom’s tone can contribute to power-sharing pedagogies. One way I have thought through this question is in relation to visual style—how the “look” of the syllabus and course materials might help establish a more equitable relationship between myself and my students. Before elaborating, […]
Assessment as a Process, Not an Event: Anti-Ableist Strategies for All Students By Jenn Polish This post will focus on developing anti-racist and anti-ableist modes of assessment, and how things like contract grading can be a way for students to create their own forms of success in classrooms (instead of being held unfailingly to […]
