A week ago, I gave a professional development segment on humanizing online learning spaces at the start of the year and building strong relationships from the get-go.* One simple start to such an effort is to create a teacher intro video that introduces students to who you are as their teacher. Take a look at […]
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Flexibility v. Consistency: The Paradox We’ve Got to Wrestle With
Flexibility makes room for individual differences: in needs, in motivations, in life circumstances, in backgrounds. Consistency makes sure we provide a guaranteed degree of quality, based on the best we know right now from research in teaching and learning. When you give teachers or students too much flexibility, you end up with a broad spectrum […]
Teachers Need Time to Learn about Using Time
Teachers Need Time to Learn about Using Time Well In the first year of my teaching career, like so many of my peers around the nation, I was proud of how many hours I worked. I didn’t count them, of course — I just noted with grim satisfaction when mine was the first car in […]
What Has the Spring of 2020 Taught Us about Student Motivation?
Hey there, One of the central questions of my work has become this: how do we make schools both more productive and more humane? It’s a total copy of management thinker Peter Drucker’s career question. Since the beginning, I’ve started every one of my professional development sessions with a slide that says, “More learning, less […]
A Conversation w/ Beau Larimer re: These 6 Things
Beau Larimer is a high school teacher in Bakersfield who also teaches teacher prep at college. I had the privilege of meeting Beau and his colleagues during a professional development workshop on a Saturday in January 2020. Beau created conversations like the one below for his teacher prep students during the covid closures of Spring […]