• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Dave Stuart Jr.

Teaching Simplified.

  • ABOUT
  • BLOG
  • LATEST VIDEOS
  • COURSES
  • BOOKS
  • SPEAKING
  • RESOURCES
  • NEWSLETTER
  • Show Search
Hide Search

Inner Work

Inking a Top-Level Goal for Your Career

June 21, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

The more I teach and think and write, the closer I get to organizing my work around a central, abiding outcome for all of it — a top-level professional goal. Angela Duckworth provides insight on this topic in her book. From Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance: …[D]ogged perseverance toward a top-level goal requires, paradoxically perhaps, some flexibility […]

Effort Counts Twice

June 18, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 7 Comments

Just over four years ago, I started this blog (here’s what it looked like). I started by writing through the Common Core literacy standards, and my goals were to learn something, help decrease the freak-out, and (moonshot) publish a book one day. (That happened, with Jossey-Bass Wiley). Fast forward to today. Blogging is one of the most rewarding […]

Pouring Ourselves Out

June 7, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 5 Comments

Every year, you and I pour bits of our lives into our students. Every minute spent teaching, conferring, assessing, and All The Things, every minute is gone, poured out, beyond recovery. Problematically, too many teachers in the USA poured too much of themselves out this year. For them, there was a sloppy abandon to the pouring, […]

A Conversation with Mike Schmoker

May 24, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Four years ago, at the very outset of this blog, I was starting to blog through the Common Core State Standards. Providentially, at about the same time I had decided to re-read Mike Schmoker’s Focus. That re-read bit was new for me. I was at a point in my career where I sensed it was high time I […]

Your Attitude About X

May 17, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

For years, I’ve had these words hanging on a wall that faces my desk: Your attitude about X says nothing about X and everything about your heart. I’m not telling you to believe them, but I’m saying there may be a strategic advantage to taking them seriously. When I approach Problem In the Classroom X with an […]

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 21
  • Go to page 22
  • Go to page 23
  • Go to page 24
  • Go to page 25
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 27
  • Go to Next Page »

Copyright © 2025 ·