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Dear colleague, I’m writing a new book called The Will to Teach. It’s built on a simple idea: the same Five Key Beliefs that drive student motivation — Credibility, Value, Effort, Efficacy, Belonging — also drive teacher motivation. And when those beliefs erode in the adults, everything else in a school starts to unravel. The…
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Dear colleague, I’ve got just a few thoughts for you today regarding how to be more Credible with students when treating matters related to AI. Just like you, my thinking on this area of our work is in development. As such, what follows is very much working draft thinking. First, be real about the temptation.…
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Dear colleague, In my last article, I warned against using the evil eye and recommended the steady eye instead. That recommendation is just one of many that I gleaned from Kearney et al.’s 1991 study on Credibility-harming teacher behaviors. You can read the study here (or my treatment of the study on pp. 37-39 of…
Dear colleague, Few teacher moves are as classic and universal as the evil eye. That glare, meant to scare or intimidate or shame a misbehaving student back toward right behavior, is older than blackboards. (Heck, it’s probably older than folks drawing stuff on cave walls.) But just because it’s classic doesn’t mean it’s a good…
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Dear colleague, I don’t have the best memory in the world when it comes to the names of former students, and it really bothers me. I’ll see a student I taught several years ago while doing some grocery shopping in our small town, and I’ll recognize the face, remember the delight I took in teaching…
Dear colleague, Some time ago, I was leading a Will to Learn workshop at a school in Palmdale, CA. During a break, middle school educator Teri Cook shared a writing activity she does with her students at the end of the week. I’m going to share it with you here — it’ll take just a…
Continue Reading A Simple, End-of-Week Reflective Writing Activity for Secondary Students