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Common Teacher Hang-up: What Do I Do When Debates Get Heated?

December 13, 2018 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

With midterm elections upon the United States and Americans demonstrating a penchant for argumentation heavy on earnestness and light on amicability, I thought this might be a helpful bit to share. Sometimes teachers write in with questions like this: “Okay, I’m doing pop-up debates, but sometimes they get really intense. What do I do?” Before […]

A Non-Freaked Out Framework for Literacy Instruction Across the Content Areas, Common Core or Otherwise

August 26, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 8 Comments

This past summer, I began playing around with a 2.0 version of the “non-freaked out approach” to Common Core literacy, hoping to hone the thinking I put forward a year and a half or so ago into something more useable, more balanced, and more timeless (you’ll notice “close reading” died of buzzwordification). Here’s what I’m going to spend […]

Do Common Core Professional Development Like This

August 16, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 6 Comments

I’m finishing up a professional development trip to California, and during these final days of the trip, a troubling (yet unsurprising) article has come to my attention: The article goes on to show that 47% of surveyed teachers would describe the Common Core professional development they’ve received as less than high quality. And all I can do […]

Literacy Educators: Let’s Get Serious about Noncognitive Skills

July 17, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

The Common Core does a pretty good job of laying out some key cognitive skills students need to have to be ready for the literacy demands of a career or college. Granted, we need to reduce the standards into a simpler, more power-packed set of focused literacy priorities (the non-freaked out approach being one possible example) if we’re going to truly see literacy […]

New Thoughts on the Non-Freaked Out Approach to Common Core Literacy

June 29, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 15 Comments

About a year and a half ago, I came up with the non-freaked out approach to Common Core literacy while driving home from a conference for edu-policy types in my state capital of Lansing. I was frustrated by the acrimony that seemed to suffuse the day’s sessions — there were politicians bickering with superintendents bickering with teachers […]

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