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Pop-Up Toasts: A Last Day of School Activity that Teaches PVLEGS, Character, and Classiness

June 6, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 48 Comments

(Note: This post is updated every year with modifications or lessons learned, by Dave and others, in using this activity. Scroll to the end of the post for those updates.) The curriculum is completed, the last tests are taken, and, for one reason or another, you’ve got your students for 30 or 60 more minutes. […]

A Simple, Powerful Tweak on the First Day of School Index Card Activity

January 21, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 35 Comments

If you’ve been around for a bit, you know I’m pretty old school in a lot of ways. When it comes to deciding which instructional strategies to use, my thinking goes like this: If multiple strategies do what I want them to do, then the simplest, quickest strategy is the best one.  This is why I use index […]

Three Great Points in Erik Palmer’s “Effective Communication” Video

July 28, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

I’ve written about Erik Palmer’s work before (remember PVLEGS?), and I’m working through his latest book Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking. But recently, I found something else of his that’s totally free and pretty powerful. It’s a video called “Effective Communication,” and while I’d encourage you to click here to watch it yourself, I […]

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