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Why I Would Love If My Children Became Teachers

October 31, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 13 Comments

During a speaking engagement in New York several weeks ago, I met a mother and a daughter who both teach in the district I was working with. I had goosebumps while I was talking with them — two generations of the same household, enthusiastically serving in the same district. The image of these two women […]

Simple Interventions: Preventing Symptoms of Depression by Teaching Kids that People Can Change

August 28, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 26 Comments

I want to share with you the most exciting thing I read all summer: it’s a study by David Yeager and Adriana Miu. In less than 1,000 words, I’ll lay it out briefly and then explain why I think it basically proves that our most idealistic conceptions of teaching — that it is magical, that […]

“Marly Attacks” and The Power of Expectations

August 21, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 15 Comments

Our third daughter, Marlena Grace, is a miniature tank with the face of an angel. Of our three girls, she’s been by far the quickest to upgrade her mobility skills, learning to crawl by six months and walk by nine months. (We aren’t the Parents Who Want Our Kids to Be First, either — Marly just […]

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