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“Everyone Knows One-and-Done PD Doesn’t Work”

March 19, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

I hear this sometimes: “Everyone knows one-and-done PD is bad.” Here are three reasons that I think the thinking behind this line could be improved. 1. If it’s true, then a recent study of 10,000 teachers suggests that “everyone” is wrong.  One of the chief findings of a recent study on teacher professional development is that effective PD is pretty idiosyncratic. Basically, […]

“How Long Do You Spend Grading Articles of the Week?”

March 15, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 5 Comments

“Dave, how long do you spend grading articles of the week?” I sometimes hear that question, or at least I see it written on the faces of people who start doing the math when I tell them about Kelly Gallagher’s article of the week (AoW) assignment. The assignment: Students read, purposefully annotate, and write a one-page response to an assigned article […]

“Vision Without Execution is Hallucination”

March 12, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

When my students asked me for my words of wisdom earlier this month, I gave them a line from Thomas Edison: “Vision without execution is hallucination.” The vision part tends to be easy, for both my students and me. The execution part is harder; it’s also where the magic happens. Vision is easier than execution: two examples from […]

How to Stop “Likes,” “Ums,” and Other Distracting Speaking Behaviors

March 8, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

Part of quality speaking instruction — particularly speech delivery instruction — is helping students eliminate their distracting speech behaviors. If you’re familiar with Erik Palmer’s PVLEGS acronym for speech delivery (a must-use, in my opinion), such behaviors are Poise issues. Here are some of the distracting habits my kids bring into their pop-up debates and small group discussions each year: Fillers (“like,” […]

A Simple Classroom Birthday Tradition

March 5, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 16 Comments

My birthday was last week, [1] which means that I had a chance to participate in our classroom birthday tradition: words of wisdom. I’ll share my words (actually, they’re not mine) next week, but for this week let’s just talk about what “words of wisdom” is, why I think it’s a worthwhile investment of roughly one […]

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