Probably the best piece of advice that I’ve learned in speaking with fellow edu-writers is that, from my limited observations, it seems that the difference between edu-blogs that gain an audience and edu-blogs that don’t is about 90 blog posts, or roughly 90,000 words. This isn’t a hard-and-fast rule or anything. It’s entirely possible to […]
Teacher as Writer
Updates (and Goodbye, Sort of) to the Teaching the Core Blog
Hi! Welcome back to Teaching the Core. Er, the Dave Stuart Jr. blog, I mean. I’ve been productive during my July sabbatical, and I’d like to explain what I’ve done and why I’ve done it. But, first, here’s the awesome news: Three posts per week in August! (Colloquially referred to as “The Blitz” within the Stuart household) For the […]
Why I Moved to TeachingtheCore.com
Bye-bye, WordPress.com — it’s been real. Hello, readers of TeachingtheCore.wordpress.com — welcome to the same exact site, minus the “.wordpress” part! Since starting Teaching the Core back in the spring, I’ve wanted to make the site a place where I could learn alongside likeminded educators about both the Common Core State Standards and teaching in […]