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Carson Hickox

Carson Hickox

7th/8th grade social studies teacher in Redmond, Oregon and guest on the Modern Classrooms Project Podcast.

Sep 13, 2026

23:49
What would you say in terms of responding to educators who are worried about motivation? What is your response there?
23:59
Yeah, I've gotten that a lot from coworkers.
24:03
They'll kind of ask me, do you grade that? And I go, no, I'm not going to grade this.
24:08
And they go, well, how do they... how do you know they're going to do if it's not graded? And I'm like, well, first of all, there really isn't anything else for them to do.
24:15
Like, you know, if they're not doing, it's like, they're not doing anything.
24:17
Like, you know what I mean? So that's the first thing.
24:20
The second thing is as hard from like, from like a teacher's side, I'm grading a lot less, which is a, which is a big incentive.
28:04
So I'd just be curious, like, are there are there any like activities or routines that you implemented this year that you feel like really worked out for you?

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