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non-freaked out framework

3,500 Teachers Can’t Be Wrong: We Need Permission to Focus

August 12, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 10 Comments

I think that there are hundreds of thousands of teachers, coaches, and administrators who are dying to be told, “If you and your students are working on this handful of things, repeatedly and with increasing skill, throughout the school year as you move through your curriculum, you’re okay.” Those last words, especially, are important: “You’re […]

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. 5 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 […]

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