In today’s political climate, discussions can easily turn into verbal combat. From Congressional debates to divisive Thanksgiving dinners and angry-emoji-laden Facebook brawls, each voice ends up yelling louder and viler without ever actually listening to the fear and motivation behind the other person’s heart. Unfortunately, the same corrosiveness emerges when we teach argumentative writing to students. In […]
7 Strategies to Make Content Stick
Note from Dave: Erica Beaton teaches tenth grade English, US history, and humanities just down the hall from me. In addition to this full-time work, she’s also a blogger, a PD provider (who I’m happy to recommend — we’ve presented together a time or two!) and one of the more resourceful educators I know, creating helpful things like a highly-effective Latin word chunk […]