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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 […]

Dear colleague, Short note today, but when I saw this (image below), I thought of you. Test corrections, to me, are a critical part of the learning process. They allow students to Unpack Outcomes, Good or Bad (Strategy #9 in The Will to Learn), and they imply that tests are just another part of the […]