Dear colleague, Short note today, but when I saw this (image below), I thought of you. Test corrections, to me, are a critical part of the learning process. They allow students to Unpack Outcomes, Good or Bad (Strategy #9 in The Will to Learn), and they imply that tests are just another part of the […]
Pop-Up Debate Problem: What Do You Do When Students Aren’t Yielding the Floor Well?
Dear colleague, Some time ago, a colleague wrote in with the following question regarding Pop-Up Debates: Dave, what do you do when multiple students stand up at the same time and don’t want to yield? I have two class sections where this is becoming a pattern, despite giving them plenty of encouragement and instruction to […]
The Secret Service
Dear colleague, One day I was walking down the hallway during my prep period, and I felt like a true-blue secret service agent. I picked up a piece of garbage. I had a brief moment of genuine connection (MGC) with a student I passed. I stopped in on a colleague and gave a word of […]
“The Great Enemy of Truth…”
Dear colleague, In a recent article, I shared about a PD trip that allowed for my visit to the JFK Presidential Library in Boston. Today I’d like to share one more JFK thought that I found to be profoundly related to the argumentative work my students and I do in whatever class I find myself […]
Is Perfectionism a Problem?
Dear colleague, Perfectionism is a tough topic. There are so many amazing human beings in education who are very much on the perfectionism spectrum. So before I say anything, let me be clear that I’m not picking on anyone or denigrating those of us with a special sense and expectation for excellence. That said, let’s […]