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There and Back Again: My Journey with Gallagher’s Article of the Week Assignment

September 27, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 54 Comments

Before the Common Core were a twinkle in David Coleman’s eye, Kelly introduced an assignment into his classroom called article of the week. In the assignment, students read complex informational texts and responded to them in writing. That writing was nearly always a blend of the explanatory and argumentative modes, and it often culminated with a discussion of the issues […]

A Non-Freaked Out Framework for Literacy Instruction Across the Content Areas, Common Core or Otherwise

August 26, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 8 Comments

This past summer, I began playing around with a 2.0 version of the “non-freaked out approach” to Common Core literacy, hoping to hone the thinking I put forward a year and a half or so ago into something more useable, more balanced, and more timeless (you’ll notice “close reading” died of buzzwordification). Here’s what I’m going to spend […]

Do Common Core Professional Development Like This

August 16, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 6 Comments

I’m finishing up a professional development trip to California, and during these final days of the trip, a troubling (yet unsurprising) article has come to my attention: The article goes on to show that 47% of surveyed teachers would describe the Common Core professional development they’ve received as less than high quality. And all I can do […]

Back-to-School To-Do List #2: Establish Burning Questions

August 15, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

I can still remember sitting in the interview for the Lake Michigan Writing Project’s Invitational Summer Institute several years ago. I was surrounded by brilliance (I had known the people for a few minutes or so, but you could tell), and one of the LMWP leaders asked us this simple question: What are your burning questions […]

Back-to-School To-Do List #1: Get Ready for my First-Ever Student Teacher

August 9, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 10 Comments

I’m sitting in the Grand Rapids airport right now waiting for a flight to haul me out to California for the week. In Cali (oh, Cali — why can’t I be visiting you in February?) I’ll be leading four professional development days in a row at three separate schools, all around the non-freaked out approach […]

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