In a recent edition of his newsletter, author James Clear wrote the following: “Over long time frames, simply staying in the game is impressive. – Health and fitness: Can you stay injury free and not miss workouts? – Wealth and finance: Can you avoid debt and continue to save? – Business: Can you maintain cash […]
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Being a Credible Teacher is Like Having a Good Wine Label
So I’m no sommelier — beer and bourbon are more my game when I choose to partake — but I was recently enthralled by a story about wine in Patrick Radden Keefe’s Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks. (Uplifting title, right?) The story that caught my eye was, on its face, quite […]
It’s “Finished”
I just put the final touches on the final draft of the final manuscript of a book I’ve been working on for what seems like eighty years. It’s the one I’ve mentioned a time or two of late — the one on student motivation. Here’s the title, as best we can figure at this stage […]
Two Principles for Normalizing Struggle in a Given Classroom
I was recently with the secondary educators of Cache County, Utah,* on what can only be described as a fine Friday of professional development. These folks were just lovely, especially in light of the fact that I was a guy holding them back from their weekend. In one of the sessions, we were looking at […]
High Expectations: An Ingredient, Not a Meal
Sometimes, we secondary educators can get into a funk of believing that we need not teach our students how to best work at learning in our classrooms. Some of us think this kind of work just isn’t something we should have to do; others think that to teach these things would be boring or insulting […]