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Why Does Student Motivation Matter? And Whose Job Is It, Anyway?

October 18, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing the results of a “Research Sprint” that I conducted in August 2016. I wrote a fairly detailed account of the sprint in my last post, but the gist is that I read three books and 15 references within those books for a single element of the Non-Freaked Out Framework […]

Triple Responsibility: Its Problems and Imperatives

October 4, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

John Wooden, who, even at 94, referred to his career as that of a teacher rather than a coach, taught his “students” many things, but the one I’d like to examine today is the concept of double responsibility. From Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success: Building Blocks for a Better Life: I… talked to my players about […]

Learning is ______________: Here’s Why How You Complete that Sentence Matters

October 1, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Here’s a multiple choice question that can really teach us something: Learning is _____________. A) when I take in new information. B) about remembering, using, and ultimately understanding information. C) difficult but important. D) about improving as a person and widening my perspective. E) a process that takes place every day of our lives. F) not […]

The Growing Dragon of Student Anxiety & Swords for Fighting It

September 24, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

When Connie (not her real name) ran out of my classroom last spring, tears streaming down her face, I felt like a horrible idiot. On the first day of school, she had voluntarily identified herself as being anxious about public speaking on her index card, but through a simple progression from Think-Pair-Share experiences to Pop-Up Discussions and Debates, […]

Gotta Want It, Gotta Do It: The Motivational and Executional Hurdles to Student Success

September 17, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 3 Comments

This past summer’s speaking work led me to a clarification on how I think about the character strengths that hang on my ninth grade classroom wall. This is exciting to me because, while my students tend to engage with the reflective or experimental work we do around helping them grow the strengths, I’m not satisfied […]

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