With half the academic year gone, it’s a perfect time to take stock of how your gradeless journey has gone so far. Whether you just dipped a toe or dove in head first, we’d like to hear how it’s going…and offer our help!

This year, we are hosting Community Gatherings via Google Meet, giving us a chance to meet with one another and reflect on our successes and struggles. This month our breakout rooms feature gradeless educators who will field questions and facilitate discussion. We’ve tried to cover several bases with educators representing different subject areas and levels:

• Starr Sackstein (Humanities) has been in education for more than 20 years and is currently the COO of Mastery Portfolio, an Edtech Startup committed to helping schools move to standard-based communication. She is the author of the book Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School and Assessing with Respect: Everyday Practices That Meet Students' Social and Emotional Needs.

• Andrew Burnett (Mathematics) currently works as a seventh grade math teacher at FA Day Middle School in Newton, Massachusetts. He regularly blogs and tweets about education. He currently resides in central Massachusetts with his wife, two children and a dog.

• Rachael Kettner-Thompson (Science) is a National Board Certified Teacher and has been teaching middle school Science for the majority of her 19 years in public schools in Arizona, Idaho, and Washington State. She currently teaches 7th and 8th grade Science just outside of Spokane, Washington.

• Firas Moosvi (Higher Ed, Computer Science) is a lecturer at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He strongly believes in computational literacy for all and aims to make STEM courses accessible through Active Learning techniques and open education resources. He is also interested in implementing alternative grading systems in large classes, at scale.

Please RSVP to let us know you are coming. And help us spread the word!