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noncognitive skills

These 5 Things, All Year Long: An Overview of The Non-Freaked Out Framework for Literacy Instruction

September 5, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

Note from Dave: This post eventually became These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most. Please note that all of the strategies, frameworks, and research referenced below are updated (and, in some cases, significantly changed, and, in all cases, significantly improved for that back. Mike Schmoker calls it “among the most helpful, […]

For Noncognitive Skill Development, Start with Growth Mindset — Here’s How

July 24, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 4 Comments

In my last post, I wrote that we literacy educators are wise to treat noncognitive skill development seriously and systematically; the research supporting them is too overwhelming to do less than choose the noncogs we want to aim for in our classrooms and then concertedly pursue their growth in ourselves and our students. In this post, I’d like to […]

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 […]

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