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Dear colleague, Once in a while, I’ll hear a student or a teacher say this when I bring up a strategy: “I tried that. It doesn’t work.” On its face, this is a frustrating thing for a teacher to hear. After all, the person seems to have come to the conclusion that there’s nothing more…
Continue Reading Getting Past “I Tried That. It Doesn’t Work.”
Dear colleague, Hofstadter’s Law is gallows humor: “It always takes longer than expected, even when one takes Hofstadter’s Law into account.” I’ve been teaching about two decades, and man… Hoftstadter must’ve been an educator or something. So: whether it’s grading or planning or getting through your emails, I’d better let you get back to the…
Dear colleague, Years ago, I started a series of articles called “Better, Saner Homework Tips.” In Part 1, I wrote on how we might make homework better and saner for ourselves. And in Part 2, I wrote about how we might make homework experiences better for our students. Today, I’d like to end this talk…
Continue Reading Better, Saner Homework Tips, Pt 3: Team Up With Parents and Guardians
Dear colleague, Years ago, I travelled to Germany with a group of teachers to study the school system there, and one of my traveling companions was an economics teacher named Martha Sevetson Rush. Martha was one of those second-career teachers that exudes a passion for the work. After college, she had been a journalist, but…
Dear colleague, The most resilient thing you can build for yourself as a professional educator isn’t a beautiful classroom (those can get reassigned) or an iron-clad curriculum (we’ve seen how quickly the winds of policy can reduce these to rubble) or a foolproof methodology (looking at you, AI). Nope. The most resilient thing is expertise.…
Continue Reading Expertise: The Best Professional Investment You Can Make
Dear colleague, I read this line from comedian Jack Druce once that sat with me for a bit for both its humor and wisdom. Trivialize what you do. I learned this with comedy but I think it applies to everything. If you are betting your self-worth on everything you do, it’s easy to crumple under…
Continue Reading What If What You Were Doing Was Silly and Fun?