In my district, emergency remote teaching officially began just this week, but I’ve had half a dozen or so class video meetings since we closed back in mid-March, and I’m still not sure I’ve gotten the knack for these things. There are parts of these experiences that I find lovely — seeing their faces, hearing […]
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What Do Moments of Genuine Connection Look Like Amidst Emergency Remote Teaching?
Recently, Aubrey Sherman from Léman Manhattan Preparatory School wrote in with this excellent question: Hi Dave! I so appreciate you sharing your thoughts, successes and challenges with distance learning. What do moments of genuine connection look like for you these days? I’ve been thinking a lot about connection recently (as I know we all are) […]
“How Do You Remember What You Read?”: Helpful Practices for Improving Our Recall of Professional Reading
When I’m able to cite a study or an author or a book from memory, folks will sometimes ask, “How do you remember what you read?” And of course I ask the same question when I listen to a superior thinker wander through the library that he or she has built in their brain. The […]
Updates to All the PD Things I Do
I try to avoid purely administrative updates on the blog, but there’s enough that’s developed to make this one necessary. If you’ll oblige me, the following updates will let me silence the PD provider part of my head so that the writer/reader/teacher part can resume its captaincy. Updates to my In-Person Events In the last […]
Zooming All the Way Out: Thinking in Phases
Perhaps what I am most aware of this week is that I am a ridiculously finite creature with limited and imperfect answers to abundant and profound questions. One day it’s, “All right — I’ve got this!” And then the next day it’s, “Why are my ideas so dumb? Haven’t I been teaching for a while […]