As you step into your classroom this school year, here’s something to think about: your classroom is meant to be an alternate world. When your students come through the door, they enter a kosmos — a good order, an orderly arrangement. It may be the arrangement of mathematical principles, or the order of history, or […]
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The DSJR Mini-Courses
Below is a list of mini-courses I’ve completed for busy individuals and time-constrained teams that want great PD without wasted time. Each course has 10 core video lessons of 10 minutes or less, and each lesson has a focused list of reflective application prompts to get you putting the work into practice. As a teacher […]
The Best Ways Out of the Web
I’m a thinker. I love people and I love the real world, but wow — there’s a universe inside that I can get lost in. The other morning I started feeling overwhelmed with problems that needed solving, and so as I sat down to journal, I began with the line, “Definitely one of those mornings […]
The DSJ PD Topic Menu: Things I Can Help With
Sometimes folks ask me: what topics can I pick from when I have you out to my district to lead PD? At the time of this writing, I’ve serviced hundreds of schools and organizations in every US state, but for some reason I’ve never created an organized answer to that question on my website. Without […]
User X Tool = Output
Do you ever get sucked in to those YouTube videos where people make elaborate structures in the jungle using really basic tools? I love those things. So satisfying, you know? But guess what would happen if you sent me into the jungle with a stick and told me to build a swimming pool? I’d laugh. […]