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Dave Stuart Jr.

Why I #LoveTeaching

February 11, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 6 Comments

I recently met an award-winning educator named Gary Abud on Twitter, and he told me about the #loveteaching campaign he’s promoting this week. He made a cool explainer video about it (click here), but here’s the skinny if you’re short on time: this week, Gary is trying to get as many folks as possible to share why […]

Moving Forward in the Midst of Survival Mode: A Retrospective

February 4, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 25 Comments

First of all, thank you. I am grateful for so much from January 2015, and I owe a heckuva lot to this Teaching the Core community. Specifically: You’ve commented on this past month’s blog posts like never before. Hearing your stories, your encouragement, your descriptions of what this blog does for you — I can honestly […]

A Simple, Powerful Tweak on the First Day of School Index Card Activity

January 21, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 35 Comments

If you’ve been around for a bit, you know I’m pretty old school in a lot of ways. When it comes to deciding which instructional strategies to use, my thinking goes like this: If multiple strategies do what I want them to do, then the simplest, quickest strategy is the best one.  This is why I use index […]

On Work Schedules, Perfectionism, and Hidden Autonomy

January 13, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 23 Comments

This post will be short because Tuesday is almost over and homeboy be sleep deprived. A few things: 1. When work schedules meet recovery schedules Since the last post, Crystal’s path to recovery has become clearer and longer. It looks like she will be on bed rest for at least a few weeks, and this means that my […]

How Gratitude Makes Us, and Our Students, Better

January 10, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 60 Comments

Gratitude has been on my mind a lot this week. In some ways, gratitude has been easy; in other ways, it’s been hard. And all along the way, it’s been interesting to examine how the character strength of gratitude can make us and our students the kinds of people we want to be. I. Easy “I […]

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