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When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy

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Ira Shor talks and reflects on his implementation of a student-driven classroom in the United States.

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Peter's writing has appeared in USA Today and the Harvard Educational Review. He teaches at a public middle school. If he gives you homework, you better do it.
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Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.
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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

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Joelle is a mother and teacher. INFP, chaotic good, Virgo, skeptic. AP Literature teacher. Views are my own.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ungrading

July 23, 2022

A veteran teacher reflects on moving towards a democratic classroom-- with surprising results
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The difference with school communities, just looking at a normal mainstream school community, what I perceive is a community where there's lots of external goals. You've got five stickers for being great. You've got three they call them smiley faces or they have a name for something. So there's an external reward for being good. For me, it's just like, "Eh-eh." It's such a fundamentally wrong thing in a community to have that as your basis of if you're good or bad.

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