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When Current Events Remain the Job of Single Departments, Kids Won’t Graduate Understanding the World Well

August 22, 2017 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

If current events are only being studied and discussed in one class during the school day — say, in your school’s English classes, where you’re having kids read and respond to an Article of the Week a la Kelly Gallagher; or it’s in your high school’s Current Events elective — then kids won’t graduate as smart about […]

One Teacher’s Experiment with a Choice-Based Articles of the Week Assignment

June 11, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

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 […]

A Conversation with Mike Schmoker

May 24, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Four years ago, at the very outset of this blog, I was starting to blog through the Common Core State Standards. Providentially, at about the same time I had decided to re-read Mike Schmoker’s Focus. That re-read bit was new for me. I was at a point in my career where I sensed it was high time I […]

A Conversation with Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein

May 14, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

In today’s installment of the interviews I conducted while creating Teaching with Articles, we get to sit down with a powerful pair of minds that long-time readers will be very familiar with. I’ve written about Gerald Graff and/or Cathy Birkenstein in some of this blog’s most popular posts: A Simple, Two-Paragraph Template that Helps Kids to Really […]

A Conversation with David Conley

May 7, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 3 Comments

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, […]

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