A week or so ago, I was having a conversation with Lynsay Fabio, the main author on our Classroom Management Course. If you’re unfamiliar with it, the CMC is (we think) the straightest, quickest path to understanding and practicing the fundamentals of managing student behavior. And one of the reasons we’re confident in its quality […]
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Shouldn’t We Just Have Students Teach Themselves?
Recently, my family purchased an inexpensive used piano. My wife and children have all had piano lessons from someone who knows how to teach piano. Thanks to good teaching plus good practice, they are at various stages in the mastery process. But honestly, my children haven’t always loved practicing the piano, and my wife didn’t […]
An End-of-Year Survey for Measuring the Five Key Beliefs
There’s tons of science about human motivation, and in my work I’ve argued that a nice way of conceptualizing this science is in this idea: beliefs drive behavior. The degree to which our students 1) do the work of learning and 2) do it with care and effort can be predicted by the degree to […]
Book Club Information
Hi there! Thanks for your interest in the book club I’m putting together. My goal is to provide a free, high-quality professional development opportunity around great books for educators around the world. The club will include an asynchronous discussion platform (so that we can write and interact on what we’re reading) and synchronous sessions for […]
Zooming All the Way Out: Thinking in Phases
Perhaps what I am most aware of this week is that I am a ridiculously finite creature with limited and imperfect answers to abundant and profound questions. One day it’s, “All right — I’ve got this!” And then the next day it’s, “Why are my ideas so dumb? Haven’t I been teaching for a while […]