Garreth Heidt

Designerly Minded High School Humanities and Liberal Studies Teacher Faculty Mentor FIRST Robotics Team #7414--PV Retrobotics. Constantly learning, trying to be more a maker and less a consumer of culture. I believe in the infinite value of a liberal education and the power of design thinking to help make the world a better place.

Garreth Heidt has written 3 posts for Cooperative Catalyst

A Gnostic Gospel: Gradelessness in the Time of Covid

Posted by Garreth Heidt ⋅ November 2, 2021 ⋅ Leave a comment

Originally posted on Only Connect:
From Amy J. Ko (Like many teachers, I’m suffering from so many feelings right now. July is winding down. I’ve been taking classes on distance learning, working on new units, and rethinking how to build a culture of caring, community, and creativity on-line, as it seems that’s the way things…

The Limits of Community and the Future of Going Gradeless

Posted by Garreth Heidt ⋅ June 16, 2017 ⋅ 1 Comment

To what extent is grading an unexamined process that is part of a system that’s less about learning and more about sorting, stigmatizing, and sickening our children in pursuit of a perfection that is neither attainable nor healthy? Source: The Limits of Community and the Future of Going Gradeless

Albert Einstein, Lewis Hyde, and The Gifts of Teaching

Posted by Garreth Heidt ⋅ September 23, 2012 ⋅ 5 Comments

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the … Continue reading →