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Archives for July 2023

This Year, Get Your Students Writing Provisionally

July 27, 2023 By Dave Stuart Jr. 3 Comments

This year, get your students writing more. It’ll make your job easier, and it’ll make their minds and hearts stronger. When you’re thinking about where and how to get them writing, use this pyramid to help you prioritize. (That’s from p. 172 of These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most.) […]

I Used to Think I Had to Do It All and Be It All…

July 25, 2023 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

…and now I know that I can’t. Dear colleague, I always say — literally, always — in ​my speaking engagements​ that if I get to the end of my life and realize that I’ve sacrificed my family for work success, I’ll have failed at all of it. As we cruise through the final weeks and […]

This Fall, Create a Cosmos

July 20, 2023 By Dave Stuart Jr. 4 Comments

As you step into your classroom this school year, here’s something to think about: your classroom is meant to be an alternate world. When your students come through the door, they enter a kosmos — a good order, an orderly arrangement. It may be the arrangement of mathematical principles, or the order of history, or […]

The DSJR Mini-Courses

July 19, 2023 By Dave Stuart Jr. 1 Comment

Below is a list of mini-courses I’ve completed for busy individuals and time-constrained teams that want great PD without wasted time. Each course has 10 core video lessons of 10 minutes or less, and each lesson has a focused list of reflective application prompts to get you putting the work into practice. As a teacher […]

The Best Ways Out of the Web

July 18, 2023 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

I’m a thinker. I love people and I love the real world, but wow — there’s a universe inside that I can get lost in. The other morning I started feeling overwhelmed with problems that needed solving, and so as I sat down to journal, I began with the line, “Definitely one of those mornings […]

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