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Dave Stuart Jr.

Paraphrase Plus: A Central Move of Engaging Classroom Discussions

September 12, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 10 Comments

This will be a short one — with the first (read: frenzied) week of school just behind me and Crystal off on a girls retreat, it’s Daddy Domination time, and the girls are bound to wake up in moments. Although my school year has only just begun, I know that some of you are using […]

When I Do, and Don’t, Get Stressed

September 8, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 11 Comments

I get really stressed about perfection sometimes. In my own life, I find this happens in several areas again and again: When I’m prepping for a speaking or professional development engagement When I’m prepping for the first day of school (which, for me, is today) When I mess up as a parent Conversely, there are other […]

These 5 Things, All Year Long: An Overview of The Non-Freaked Out Framework for Literacy Instruction

September 5, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

Note from Dave: This post eventually became These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most. Please note that all of the strategies, frameworks, and research referenced below are updated (and, in some cases, significantly changed, and, in all cases, significantly improved for that back. Mike Schmoker calls it “among the most helpful, […]

This Year, Make Better Choices with Warren Buffett’s 25-5 List Technique

September 1, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 5 Comments

Like many educators, I have Yes-itis: the tendency to say Yes to good things, which often disables me from doing great things. So let me ask you some questions: When you get that email about a new opportunity — how do you decide whether or not to take it? When your boss says, “Hey, great news: there’s an […]

An Exemplary Exercise for Building Goal-Keeping Kids (includes Downloadable Document)

August 31, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

In “The Kind of Science that Teaching Needs,” I shared an “experiment” I whipped up last year to help my students set and stay committed to their goals. If you read that article, you’ll know that I have to put “experiment” in quotation marks because it was missing a few important pieces of experimentation (like, you know, […]

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