In my book These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most, I’m basically after responsible reduction. How do we reduce the impossibly large list of potential things we could do with students into a pleasantly manageable list of things? In other words, it’s a book that attempts to introduce a gist […]
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Two Principles for Normalizing Struggle in a Given Classroom
I was recently with the secondary educators of Cache County, Utah,* on what can only be described as a fine Friday of professional development. These folks were just lovely, especially in light of the fact that I was a guy holding them back from their weekend. In one of the sessions, we were looking at […]
The Inner Work (Teaching Simplified for Back to School Series)
This is meant to be a one-stop-shop solution to all of your back-to-school-specific needs with the inner work of teaching. The essential question that this article’s sections seek to answer for you and me is this: What methods are best suited to getting our heads and hearts right for a new school year? Start Your […]
Simple Rules, Visualized (Teaching Simplified Series, August 2022)
Last chance! Register for tomorrow’s student motivation workshop. All participants get access to the live, virtual event with me, plus a recording of the event, plus a link to the slides I use, PLUS a cheatsheet PDF I developed today after talking with some genius school leaders in Linden, CA. So many pluses, right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight? […]
What I Do When a Parent, Guardian, or Student Emails Me Re: Make-Up Work or “How to Get My Grade Up”
Recently at a professional development in California, we were doing a session on workload simplification and a colleague raised her hand and asked the following: I get what you’re saying about satisficing our email inboxes. But what happens to me at least once a week is a student or family member emailing me for a […]