My favorite method for cultivating Value in the hearts of your students for the work of your discipline is called “An Apologist Winsome and Sure.” That’s a weird title — purposefully so — so let me briefly explain what I mean. An apologist is someone who makes a case for something that’s controversial. But this […]
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How to *Have Fun* Helping Your Students Value School This Year
Note to readers: This post is an ongoing project in August 2022. I’ll be adding to it frequently. Introduction When students don’t optimally Value school, they’ll say things like this: This is boring. This is pointless. Why do we have to do this? When will I ever use this in my life? When they don’t […]
The Inner Work (Teaching Simplified for Back to School Series)
This is meant to be a one-stop-shop solution to all of your back-to-school-specific needs with the inner work of teaching. The essential question that this article’s sections seek to answer for you and me is this: What methods are best suited to getting our heads and hearts right for a new school year? Start Your […]
Have Your 🍰 and Eat It, Too
Hey there colleague, Last week I began posting a month of helpful back-to-school blog posts as teachers across the nation take the field for another great season of promoting long-term flourishing. Some of you were like, “Yes, bring on the daily emails! Miss you, bruv.” And others of you were like, “Dude. Too many emails.” […]
Think on Helpful Things (Teaching Simplified, August 2022)
Here’s a dynamic of the soul that must be contended with: too much pressure makes us worse at our jobs, which in turns adds to our pressure. I call this the Workload-Pressure Cycle. It’s a recursive doom loop. Left undisrupted, it disrupts our souls. It looks like this: Thankfully, there are two ways in which […]