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:Ā Erica Beaton teaches tenthĀ grade English, US history, and humanities just down the hall from me. In addition toĀ this full-time work, she’s alsoĀ a blogger, a PD providerĀ (who I’m happy to recommend ā we’veĀ presented together a time or two!) and one of the moreĀ resourceful educators I know, creating helpful things like a highly-effectiveĀ Latin word chunk […]