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Beware the Planning Fallacy

February 21, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

In 1994, 37 psychology students were asked to estimate how long it would take to write their theses. On the bright side (“If everything goes as well as it could”) they estimated an average of 27.4 days; on the dark side (“If everything goes as badly as it could”) they estimated an average of 48.6 […]

Successful v. Useful: Lessons on Teaching from Jim Collins and Peter Drucker

February 19, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. 10 Comments

When management researcher Jim Collins was 36 years old, he was invited to spend a day at the home of Peter Drucker. Drucker is someone I’ve just started reading, as I’m in the research phase for a course on time management. The more I read on this topic, the more I find people reverently referencing Drucker’s work. The guiding question […]

The Shift

February 14, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. 14 Comments

Last time, I shared a long and impossible list of things that teachers like us feel expected to do. Many of you wrote and shared your additions to the list (e.g., club sponsorships, lunch duty), making it even more accurate, and even longer, and even more oppressive. Suffice it to say, the default conditions of […]

The Pressure

February 12, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

Teaching can pretty quickly turn you into a basket case. Consider a list of responsibilities — of things that we “have to do” — that our colleague Lynsay Fabio, a secondary English teacher, came up with recently. (Note: A potential side effect of reading this list is shortness of breath.) Read the class novel myself, […]

The Time Warp Scenario: How to Get Unstuck On Big Projects

February 5, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Whether you’re planning a unit or prepping to lead PD or preparing for a job interview or writing a book proposal or drafting a speech, if you’re like me, you’ll inevitably run into moments where you get stuck. What I’m talking about are those times when the internal dialogue is like this: “AHHHH! I’M GOING […]

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