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Some Tests Are Really Great for Students

May 31, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Tests are easy to vilify in the USA today because there are too many bad ones and there are too many bogus high stakes attached to them. But this school year I’ve seen an extremely difficult test have a profoundly positive effect on its takers. First, my AP World History kids. Prior to this year, I hadn’t taught an advanced course of […]

The Pedagogical Benefits of Doing Hard Things

May 28, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 11 Comments

I’m running a marathon today. At some point, months ago, my little brother and I thought this was a great idea. As the training miles (and skipped training sessions) piled up, my evaluation of the idea decayed. By the final weeks of training, I found myself repeatedly saying to Crystal, “Honey, if I ever talk about wanting to run a marathon […]

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 […]

The Non-Freaked Out Framework: Five Things We’ve Got to Keep Getting Better At

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

The Non-Freaked Out Framework (Figure 1) is really just a set of five imperatives. One goal governs them all: let’s do increase the quantity and quality of these things, across the content areas. “Framework” is probably a bad word for what it actually is. Maybe I should call them “The Non-Freaked Out List of Important Things […]

A Conversation with Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein

May 14, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

In today’s installment of the interviews I conducted while creating Teaching with Articles, we get to sit down with a powerful pair of minds that long-time readers will be very familiar with. I’ve written about Gerald Graff and/or Cathy Birkenstein in some of this blog’s most popular posts: A Simple, Two-Paragraph Template that Helps Kids to Really […]

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