Last chance! Register for tomorrow’s student motivation workshop. All participants get access to the live, virtual event with me, plus a recording of the event, plus a link to the slides I use, PLUS a cheatsheet PDF I developed today after talking with some genius school leaders in Linden, CA. So many pluses, right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight? […]
Uncategorized
Two Start-of-the-Year Questions for Educators (Teaching Simplified Series, 2022)
Reminder: You can still register for my innovative and encouraging workshop for teachers that’s taking place this week. It’ll help move you from argh to agency in the all-important realm of student motivation. What are the best-leveraged ways to help our students want to do the work of learning? That’s what we’ll cover. It’s gonna […]
From “Argh to Agency:” Unveiling Season 11 of This Blog
Dear colleague, Today on the first day of August 2022, I’m excited to share with you what the 11th year of this blog will offer to earnest, hard-working educators like you and me. I think the purpose of DaveStuartJr.com is to act as a lighthouse in the oft-stormy seas of being a teacher in the […]
Closing Out the School Year: A Letter to My Colleagues
Dear Colleague, I was reading C. S. Lewis this morning and I came across this line: “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out […]
A Time to Weep and a Time to Love
The other morning before school, I found myself looking at the faces and reading the stories of the people who were killed in Texas last week. I typically try to not to dwell on tragedies like this; a soul handles only so much sorrow before it numbs, and ours is a time awash in cause […]