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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 […]

Conversation Challenge: an Efficient, Simple Small-Group Discussion Strategy

March 1, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 14 Comments

When I want every student to speak in a capacity more involved than Think-Pair-Share yet more efficient than pop-up debate, I tend to use something I call Conversation Challenge. Conversation Challenge is simply a way of framing small group discussions. Instead of only saying, “Discuss [insert prompt here] about [insert text here],” I add one additional […]

Keep These Things in Mind When Thinking about Student Discussions

February 27, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Ashley Pacholewski sent me an email this week. Ashley is a teacher at Brunswick High School in Ohio, and she had a great question: “What discussion strategies do you use at the end of the week when using Kelly Gallagher’s Article of the Week assignment?” Since I was already in “filming lessons mode” for the Teaching with […]

Education, Not Entertainment

February 20, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 12 Comments

We are currently teaching the most entertained generation in the history of humankind. I don’t say that disparagingly; my generation is not morally superior to the students I teach simply because we had access to exponentially less entertainment. (And we certainly had access to more than our parents.) But consider: YouTube is incredible. The blogosphere […]

Myth: If We Supervise and Evaluate Teachers More Intensely, the Quality of Teaching Will Improve

February 16, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 3 Comments

Note from Dave: I first became aware of Dr. Richard DuFour when I moved to Cedar Springs and experienced professional learning communities (PLCs) for the first time. When I was approached about hosting a guest article from Dr. DuFour, I was eager to read what he had to say after a decorated career as a leader in education. […]

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