Prompt: "My fairytale has nothing to do with knights on white horses or getting kissed out of a coma or finding lost slippers at midnight... No, my fairytale contains____." My "fairytale" contains a lot of dogs. The place would be on water - a lake, preferably - and the cabin would be self-sustaining (yep, full hippie idea: solar panels and recycled rain water) with wifi and a deck for me to sit on and stare at the water from. The place wouldn't be too close to other humans, but close enough to amenities like a grocery store and a gas station. I would spend my days playing with the dogs, and caring for them, while writing and reading anything that makes me content. I may or may not have a partner who helps me with projects around the cabin - treehouses for the nieces and nephew, gardens for new vegetables, plant trees for fruit, etc. This fairytale would definitely include an outdoor shower, an outhouse, and bunkhouses for visitors. Occasionally, I would throw a...

Ungrading Nugget #1.  #Ungrading, for me, is a theory. The practice looks very different for each teacher, whether they are teaching k-12 or at a university. {The practice is a privilege for some, as I acknowledge that as a full-timer, I'm allotted more freedom than a part-time teacher.} The practice looks very different depending on discipline, too. So, two English teachers at the same community college might be using the ungrading theory, but their ways of "assessment" vary from: their use or non-use of reflections and what those look like (questions asked) and when they are assigned (beginning, middle, end or something in between) their use or non-use of grading conferences and what those look like (the prep for students) and when they are conducted (midterm, both midterm and at the end, or just the end) their use or non-use of self-assessments and what those look like (declaration quizzes* in the LMS or rubrics or reflections attached to projects) and when they are as...