Tag Archives: Teaching

It’s Time to End Direct Instruction

Posted on 2020/10/26 by

Direct instruction. I’ll tell you what you need to know. You record it, train yourself to know it, and then repeat it back, apply it to something else, or synthesize that knowledge plus some other knowledge in producing original work. … Continue reading →

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Three Part Series on Story Structure

Posted on 2020/09/11 by

Okay, so this isn’t profound, brand new, or whatever. But it’s solid stuff, and I created it on the fly this week for students working from home. I thought maybe other folks – parents working with their students at home, … Continue reading →

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Nothing Went as Planned, and Everything Will Be Okay: A(nother) 2020 Experience

Posted on 2020/09/09 by

All we can do is the best we can do, and it’s okay not to be okay. This week, as is the case so many places across the country, our school had a surprise shutdown on the occasion of a … Continue reading →

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How to REALLY be Prepared for the 2020-2021 School Year

Posted on 2020/08/17 by

Challenge and Solution # 1 Challenge “I have been doing this for years / I’ve been training to teach a certain way. I can’t rely on that training/experience and have everything ready to go for online and in-person contexts.” Solution … Continue reading →

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Teacher to Teacher: A Letter to a Naively Racist and Classist Younger Me

Posted on 2020/08/13 by

Steve, I’m here to address a problem that you’re going to want to dismiss as soon as you hear it. I’ll cut to the chase. When people talk about systemic racism, you are a part of the system perpetrating the … Continue reading →

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