Bonus Episode: Hacking Assessment Featuring Starr Sackstein

Aspire to Lead. Starr Sackstein, Joshua Stamper, Hacking Assessment

In this bonus episode, Starr Sackstein shares her exciting announcement about Hacking Assessment and we discuss how to shift the “Grades Mindset”, change your grading system, and improve the feedback process. 

In this episode, we discuss:

  • A No-Grade Classroom
  • Rebranding Assignments as learning experiences
  • Project based learning – Teaching the Reflection Process
  • Ditching the Traditional Gradebook
  • And her new edition, Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School

About Starr Sackstein:

Starr Sackstein is a recovering perfectionist who is an assessment reforming enthusiast. Currently, she works with teacher teams to engage students in the learning process, advocate for personal growth, and effectively use student data to drive instruction with the Core Collaborative. She also works as publisher for Mimi & Todd Press.  In her past lives, she was a high school English and journalism teacher, a lead Humanities learner, and social media manager. 

Additionally, Starr is an author, blogger, and speaker committed to changing the way we do assessment nationally and globally. Her most recent book is called Assessing with Respect: Everyday Practices that Meet Students’ Social and Emotional Needs with ASCD. When Starr isn’t evangelizing about grading reform, she is the wife to Charlie, mindfulness mountain biker extraordinaire, and mother to Logan, a high school student, and gamer and Huxley the cat, an aging Abyssinean. 

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Hacking Assessment Book (NEW Edition):

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Aspire to Lead, Joshua Stamper, Book Authority Award, Best new book

Aspire to Lead, Joshua Stamper, Book Authority Award, Best new book

Aspire to Lead made it to the Best New Education Books

I’m happy to announce that my book, “Aspire to Lead”, made it to BookAuthority’s Best New Education Books.

BookAuthority collects and ranks the best books in the world, and it is a great honor to get this kind of recognition. Thank you for all your support!

The book is available for purchase on Amazon.

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About the author, Joshua

Joshua Stamper is the Training and Development Specialist for the Teach Better Team and manages the Teach Better Podcast Network. Prior to Joshua's current position, he was a middle school Administrator, classroom art educator, and athletic coach.

In addition to being on the Teach Better Team, Joshua is the author of Aspire to Lead, podcaster, leadership coach, and education presenter.

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