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Photo Credit: Luc De Leeuw via Compfight As regular readers know, each year I teach a double period ninth-grade English class that often contains a number of very sharp students facing challenges. After just completing two weeks of mind-numbing standardized Read More...
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We’re going through the standardized testing regimen at our school this week and next, and we all know what the means. During the periods when we don’t have testing going on, my colleague, Katie Hull, and I are having our … Continue reading → Read More...
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More Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Management Tips is the latest excerpt from my new book, Self-Driven Learning. It appears in Edutopia. Read More...
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I’ve written regularly in my blog and in my books about the advantages of helping develop intrinsic motivation. Here’s some more evidence from a TIME Magazine report titled Pushing Teens to Change Their Eating Habits Could Backfire on a recent … Continue Read More...
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Photo Credit: Pimkie via Compfight The nineteen year career I had as a community organizer before I became a educator a decade ago has had a major influence in how I teach. One lesson I constantly remember is the importance … Continue reading → Read More...
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Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Management Tips is the title given to a book excerpt that Edutopia has just published. It’s from my newest book, Self-Driven Learning. Read More...
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I’ve previously posted about a short lesson I’ve done on being bored and what students — and teachers — can do about it (see Have You Ever Had A Student Say “This Is Boring”? Here’s A Lesson On It I’m … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve previously posted, and written in my books, about a study that showed the value of having students write a few sentences after lessons about how what they just learned can be connected to their life (see “Relevance” & Student … Continue reading Read More...
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Here’s a great story from Marvin Marshall, a great writer on positive classroom strategies: Read More...
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Greg Toppo’s article yesterday in USA Today, More teachers are grouping kids by ability, has gotten a lot of attention over the past twenty-four hours. And it got me thinking that I’d like to explore it further in this blog … Continue reading → Read More...
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Defining Bullying Down is a column in The New York Times by Emily Bazelon, the author of “Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy.” There are a lot of reader comments … Continue reading Read More...
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A few years ago I wrote Writing Letters To Students, which tells about a tactic I sometimes use in the classroom and includes an example. I’ve also written about it in my books. This has been a somewhat tough year … Continue reading → Read More...
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Cultivating a Positive Environment for Students is the title of an excerpt appearing in Education Week Teacher. It’s from my new book, Self-Driven Learning, which is coming out on Friday. Read More...
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I’ve written several posts about brain “priming” research and how I apply it in the classroom, as well as some of my ethical reservations. I primarily use it on days for standardized tests, and they’re all fairly innocuous (such as … Continue reading Read More...
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One of the chapters in my upcoming book shares ideas and lesson plans on how to deal with rudeness in class, and I thought readers might appreciate a compilation of my previous posts on the topic: How Do We Contribute … Continue reading → Read More...
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