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Want More Writing Across the Content Areas? Validate the Content

May 6, 2017 By Dave Stuart Jr. 3 Comments

The first step to improving the percentage of our kids who are capable writers is to increase how much writing they do. Typically, the classes with the greatest opportunities to do this are the non-ELA ones. Unfortunately, content area teachers are often given the impression, when a writing initiative comes into town, that writing is more […]

Writing: The Most Underrated Twenty-First Century Skill

May 2, 2017 By Dave Stuart Jr. 8 Comments

I struggle to imagine putting together a solid argument for why we wouldn’t want all of our students to be capable writers when they graduate. Writing well is an obvious good. While much fuss was made about newfangled twenty-first-century skills, one very old skill that seems to be only increasing in importance is writing. Here we have the importance from an […]

Principles Underlying Mechanics Instruction that Sticks

August 20, 2016 By Doug Stark 5 Comments

Note from Dave: Below, my colleague and friend Doug Stark introduces his newly re-mastered, four-leveled Mechanics Instruction that Sticks series of warm-ups for English teachers. For my secondary English teacher readers, you’ll probably be interested in this whole post; for my non-ELA teacher readers, let me suggest the section of the post titled “Principles Underlying the Warm-Ups.” In this […]

Write 100 Blog Posts

March 26, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

Probably the best piece of advice that I’ve learned in speaking with fellow edu-writers is that, from my limited observations, it seems that the difference between edu-blogs that gain an audience and edu-blogs that don’t is about 90 blog posts, or roughly 90,000 words. This isn’t a hard-and-fast rule or anything. It’s entirely possible to […]

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, […]

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