Welcome to the best posts and videos here on the Teaching the Core blog. I have over 150 posts that will help you understand, evaluate, and implement literacy, Common Core and otherwise, in your classroom. It’s pretty difficult to filter through and figure out what you should read, so I decided to do the hard work and […]
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About Dave Stuart Jr.
Quick bullets Below, I’ll give you some of the details folks often want when they visit this page. But first, let me plainly state why this site exists. I believe that schools exist to promote the long-term flourishing of young people, and that schools do this best when their teachers flourish, too. I make this […]
Waging War on the Bad Guys
I recently had the privilege and pleasure of traveling to two beautiful towns — Harrah, Oklahoma and Lebanon, Missouri — and speaking to two beautiful groups of teachers about the non-freaked out approach to the Common Core that we in the Teaching the Core movement have been working on over the past year. On my […]
5 Steps for Getting Comfy Here
Hi, I’m Dave. I help teachers get greater. I’ve been building this blog since May 2012, so there’s lots of schtuff — here are five easy steps to make the most of this place. 1. Join the movement By far the coolest thing about this blog is its community of people who read, comment, interact, and write here. These […]
A Non-Freaked Out, Focused Approach to the Common Core — Part 3 — Close Reading
Update from Dave: Welcome to one of the most popular posts on the blog. This post is kind of old and doesn’t reflect my latest thinking, so let me point you toward some more recent things I’ve written in case you’re curious: An Obituary for Close Reading Moving Forward with Close Reading Purposeful Annotation: A […]