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 […]
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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 […]
We’ve Got to Teach Sleep
For the first part of the school year, my students read a series of weekly articles around one burning question: what skills and knowledge matter most for a flourishing life? The articles are a mixture of ones I use every year (that list is here when you scroll down*) and the ones Lynsay and I […]
3 More Sample Lessons for Enrichment-Oriented Emergency Remote Learning*
Last week I released a quick “20 for 20” exercise that I developed, and many of you wrote back saying, “Hey, yes — more like this.” So in the first couple days of this week, that’s what I’ve been doing — creating sample learning experiences and writing at the bottom of each how it’s designed […]
Example of an Emergency Remote Teaching Enrichment Activity: Learning Strategy Brainstorm (Any Subject, Gr 4-12)
Recently, I wrote that perhaps our wisest approach to distance learning for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year is enrichment only. My earnest and amicable argument here is that if we try a continuation approach to distance learning, we’ll end up with fewer engaged students now and larger gaps when we return than if […]
