Presented at the Missouri Music Educators Association 88th Annual In-Service Workshop/Conference

“Harmonizing the Future: No Roads Needed. Just Music.”

Presentation PDF:

Some more:

Sample lesson/project on Digital Media Technology’s custom LMS: Quest 33: Samples, Patches, and More

Example Projects:

Best Reading

Feldman, J. (2019). Grading for equity: What it is, why it matters, and how it can transform schools and classrooms. Corwin.

Hennessey, B. A., & Amabile, T. M. (1987). Creativity and learning: What research says to the teacher. National Education Association. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED312835

Stommel, J. (2023). Undoing the grade: Why we grade, and how to stop. Hybrid Pedagogy. https://pressbooks.pub/thegrade/

Additional Reading

Amabile, T. M. (1997). Motivating creativity in organizations: On doing what you love and loving what you do. California Management Review, 40(1), 39-58. https://doi.org/10.2307/41165921

Ferguson, H. J. (2013). Journey into ungrading. Counterpoints, 451, 194-209.

Ferns, Shaun, Robert Hickey, and Helen Williams. “Ungrading, Supporting Our Students through a Pedagogy of Care.” International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education 12, no. 2 (2021): 4500-04. https://infonomics-society.org/wp-content/uploads/Ungrading-Supporting-Our-Students-through-a-Pedagogy-of-Care-.pdf.

Fox, J., & Smith, B. (2023). Creativity: An unsolved enigma. Innovations in Education & Teaching International, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2023.2222287

Gorichanaz, T. (2022). “It made me feel like it was okay to be wrong”: Student experiences with ungrading. Active Learning in Higher Education, 25(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/14697874221093640

Hasinoff, A. A., Bolyard, W., DeBay, D., Dunlap, J. C., Mosier, A. C., & Pugliano, E. (2024). “Success was actually having learned:” University student perceptions of ungrading. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 12. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.12.5

Inoue, Asao B. Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom. Fort Collins, CO: WAC Clearinghouse, 2019. PDF Format. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/labor/contracts.pdf.

McMorran, C., & Ragupathi, K. (2019). The promise and pitfalls of gradeless learning: Responses to an alternative approach to grading. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44(7), 925-938. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2019.1619073

Robinson, K. (2006, February). Do schools kill creativity? [Video]. TED Conferences. http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

Runco, M. A., & Jaeger, G. J. (2012). The standard definition of creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 24(1), 92-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2012.650092

Spurlock, S. (2023, March 15-18). Improving student motivation by ungrading [Paper]. Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2023), Toronto, ON, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569747

Williams, H. (2020). Will students engage if there are no grades? A review of the evidence, and an experiment in ungrading. 13th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 2575-2581. https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2020.0605