Dear colleague, In Kelly Gallagher’s new book, To Read Stuff You Have to Know Stuff: Helping Students Build and Use Prior Knowledge, he offers an abundance of mini-sermon material for the Value of building knowledge. As the title proclaims, Gallagher’s apologetics for knowledge-building focus especially on the role that knowledge plays in reading comprehension. But […]
Why We Write
Dear colleague, In a world where AI can produce “better” and faster and clearer writing than you and I can, does writing still matter? Is this something we should have our students do, all across the school day? And if so, why? In this article, I want to share the earnest, robust approach I’m taking […]
Why We Do What We Do
Dear colleague, Last time, I shared rough draft thoughts on how I’m doing in the Age of AI. This time, I’d like to begin a series of essays on the Value of the different modes of learning I describe in These 6 Things. If you’ve got a copy of that book, get it handy for […]
Mini-Sermons – DSJR Student Motivation Guide
In The Will to Learn: How to Cultivate Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own, I lay out an approach to student motivation in which Five Key Beliefs can be influenced using just 10 basic strategies. The fourth of those strategies is Mini-Sermons from an Apologist Winsome and Sure. What is it? The Most Important Thinking […]
The Robots Have Won…Sort Of.
Dear colleague, I was recently disturbed by a new AI tool that popped up in two of the handful of news sources I read on a regular basis. Basically, you give the tool a link to an article, a PDF, or a Google document, and with the click of a button, the tool creates a […]