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The MGC Inflection Point

April 24, 2025 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

Dear colleague, This year I’ve worked with several partner schools to help The Will to Learn take root in their schools. In each one, there’s this inflection point that happens where folks have tried Moments of Genuine Connection (MGCs) for a bit — printed their rosters, started keeping track, grappled with the exhaustion — and […]

Every Student Known

April 22, 2025 By Dave Stuart Jr. 1 Comment

Dear colleague, For the past year and a half, folks on my building leadership team have been giving us faculty members a chance to think about, experiment with, and get consistent with tracking attempted moments of genuine connection (MGCs). That might seem crazy — I mean, how do you spend 1.5 years exploring a strategy […]

How to Woodenize Working Memory (Woodenization Example)

April 17, 2025 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Dear colleague, As I unpack in the first module of the Principles of Learning Course (and a bit in this YouTube video), one of the reasons learning is hard is because working memory is a limited resource. Working memory is whatever we’re thinking about at the moment. It’s what we think with. Hopefully, your working […]

Are Worksheets Bad?

April 15, 2025 By Dave Stuart Jr. 1 Comment

Dear colleague, It’s common enough to hear a well-meaning teacher use language like this: In one sense, I get it. When a class period becomes nothing more than a teacher distributing worksheet after worksheet to keep kids busy, that class is falling short of its potential. Our job is to teach, not to chuck worksheets […]

What’s a Distraction? (Woodenization Example)

April 8, 2025 By Dave Stuart Jr. 1 Comment

Dear colleague, What’s a distraction? This is actually a great question to spend 10-15 minutes of class time on at least once per school year. Follow these basic steps to maximize the amount of learning the question produces. Step 1. Start with having your students write about the question. Use prompts like this: Prompts like […]

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