Archives for September 2024

Dear colleague, My goodness — ya’ll have curiosities that run the gamut. Whether it’s restorative justice, reducing achievement gaps, competency/mastery instruction, or deep education versus cheap schooling…us professionals are pondering a lot of things. So here’s why I asked that question in my previous post. About nine months ago, I got curious about whether my […]

Dear colleague, I just finished recording an interview that I’m excited to share with you later this week. It’s a long-form conversation with a dear friend, and its core themes are curiosity, experimentation, and progress. It got me thinking. At a time of the school year when it can start to be hard to remember […]

Dear colleague, One of our amazing colleagues wrote a comment on my YouTube channel recently that perfectly describes how to approach your first Pop-Up Debates of the school year. (For more on Pop-Up Debates, see the index of your copy of These 6 Things or this guide.) Here’s what Connie Fletcher said: One of my […]

Dear colleague, In my general-level World History courses this year, I’ve started running an “Article of the Day” experiment. Students grab the printed article as they come into class and then: Each of those bullets are skills I’ve been ​Woodenizing​ through modeling on the doc cam — again and again and again. I do, you […]

Dear colleague, During this past summer, I spent much of the time enjoying time away from the teaching and writing grind. But sprinkled throughout that time, I also travelled to schools in Ohio, Michigan, California, Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, and Texas. In the midst of that PD work, I realized something about what a good professional […]