This is meant to be a one-stop-shop solution to all of your back-to-school-specific needs with the inner work of teaching. The essential question that this article’s sections seek to answer for you and me is this: What methods are best suited to getting our heads and hearts right for a new school year? Start Your […]
Archives for August 2022
Have Your 🍰 and Eat It, Too
Hey there colleague, Last week I began posting a month of helpful back-to-school blog posts as teachers across the nation take the field for another great season of promoting long-term flourishing. Some of you were like, “Yes, bring on the daily emails! Miss you, bruv.” And others of you were like, “Dude. Too many emails.” […]
Think on Helpful Things (Teaching Simplified, August 2022)
Here’s a dynamic of the soul that must be contended with: too much pressure makes us worse at our jobs, which in turns adds to our pressure. I call this the Workload-Pressure Cycle. It’s a recursive doom loop. Left undisrupted, it disrupts our souls. It looks like this: Thankfully, there are two ways in which […]
Simple Rules, Visualized (Teaching Simplified Series, August 2022)
Last chance! Register for tomorrow’s student motivation workshop. All participants get access to the live, virtual event with me, plus a recording of the event, plus a link to the slides I use, PLUS a cheatsheet PDF I developed today after talking with some genius school leaders in Linden, CA. So many pluses, right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight? […]
Two Start-of-the-Year Questions for Educators (Teaching Simplified Series, 2022)
Reminder: You can still register for my innovative and encouraging workshop for teachers that’s taking place this week. It’ll help move you from argh to agency in the all-important realm of student motivation. What are the best-leveraged ways to help our students want to do the work of learning? That’s what we’ll cover. It’s gonna […]
