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Dear colleague, About a month ago, I invited teachers to spend a month experimenting with tracking attempted MGCs. The goal was to keep track of what we did and see what we noticed. Here’s what I learned from this work during September of 2024-2025. What I Did My Favorite Glimpses of Impact One day in […]

Dear colleague, In my general-level World History courses this year, I’ve started running an “Article of the Day” experiment. Students grab the printed article as they come into class and then: Each of those bullets are skills I’ve been ​Woodenizing​ through modeling on the doc cam — again and again and again. I do, you […]

Dear colleague, Earlier this week, I invited you to join me in a month of experimenting and playing with Strategy #1 in The Will to Learn: Tracking Attempted Moments of Genuine Connection (MGCs). And today I’m going to write to you about something you’ll find as you work on this: MGCs can be exhausting. An […]

Here’s a question I’m thinking about during the first weeks of school: Is motivation the CAUSE of doing the work of learning or the EFFECT? As it turns out, it’s both. Motivation gets us to try the work of learning. When I think of my students this year who are most resistant to doing the […]