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Working with Adults

Four Questions Deep

November 24, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 9 Comments

I want you to try something with me this week: what if, in a conversation or two — with our kids, with our colleagues, with our spouses, with our students, with crazy Uncle Harry who you only see at Thanksgiving — we tried asking four questions in a row. “In a row” isn’t the best way […]

When Your State Reduces Your Profession to a Test Score

November 10, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 13 Comments

A while back, I wrote “The 300-Word Guide to Long-Term Flourishing,” and it elicited a heartfelt response about test scores and teacher evaluations from a passionate educator whom I’ll call D in this post. Her comment follows: Thank you for defining this concept so clearly! It is difficult to “refuse to freak out about high-stakes […]

Back-to-School To-Do List #1: Get Ready for my First-Ever Student Teacher

August 9, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 10 Comments

I’m sitting in the Grand Rapids airport right now waiting for a flight to haul me out to California for the week. In Cali (oh, Cali — why can’t I be visiting you in February?) I’ll be leading four professional development days in a row at three separate schools, all around the non-freaked out approach […]

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