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Dear colleague, It’s that time of year when I share some special things that have come into my mailbox over the course of the school year. Last time, we looked at Mandy from Brooklyn’s use of the Five Key Beliefs as a guide during a hard transition. This time, we’ll look at Mr. Gordon Downs […]

Dear colleague, Today’s blog post is a little different, as it’s almost entirely the content of a letter I received last fall from Mandy in Brooklyn. Though she wrote it at the start of this school year, I saved it for sharing until now because it’s a great end-of-year piece on how the Five Key […]

Dear colleague, It’s that time of year when some of you have a line item in your PD budget that needs a home before the fiscal year closes. If that’s you, I wanted to put my courses on your radar, not as some kind of sales pitch, but rather because these learning experiences are special […]

…then it’s probably not working. This is true for: My students tend to need reminders like this rather often. The most common reasons I bring this kind of “If it doesn’t feel like work…” message to my students are: It’s basically me trying to point their minds toward the power of deliberate practice and intentional […]

Dear colleague, A year or so ago, we decided the Stuart children needed a piece of core cultural knowledge known as Rocky (1976) in their lives. I hadn’t seen the film since I was a kid, and I had to chuckle at a couple things I didn’t remember from my first viewing decades ago: This […]