Have you ever toyed with the idea of letting your students select the articles for Kelly Gallagher’s article of the week assignment? Stephanie Roederer, a teacher from Kentucky, has done a lot more than ponder it! Below, you’ll read an email Stephanie sent me a month or so ago. Her thought process, strategies, and results are so […]
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Knowing Stuff is Inseparable from Literacy
The point of the Non-Freaked Out Approach to Producing Literate Humans (still working on that title; see Figure 1) is to make it easy for teachers to remember what we ought to become very, very good at. It helps us ask at the end of a hard day, “Did I help my students grow in […]
A Conversation with David Conley
While preparing the material inside of the Teaching with Articles course, I interviewed people I greatly respect and recorded the conversations. Previously, I’ve published my conversations with Kelly Gallagher and Larry Ferlazzo. Today, I’m sharing my conversation with the father of college and career readiness, Dr. David Conley himself. Dr. Conley is president of EdImagine, […]
Asking the Right Questions: The Best of My Blog, Organized by Question
Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions. –Artistotle, Metaphysics, Book II, as cited by CS Lewis in Miracles Teaching and learning in the USA suffers from murkiness of thought. We aren’t clear on some very, very basic things, and this is often because we don’t ask the right questions at the start. […]
“Everyone Knows One-and-Done PD Doesn’t Work”
I hear this sometimes: “Everyone knows one-and-done PD is bad.” Here are three reasons that I think the thinking behind this line could be improved. 1. If it’s true, then a recent study of 10,000 teachers suggests that “everyone” is wrong. One of the chief findings of a recent study on teacher professional development is that effective PD is pretty idiosyncratic. Basically, […]