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The Post-Truth Classroom
The classroom used to be a sacred space. The teacher was considered the expert who used their knowledge to help guide students, and to occasionally correct them as needed. …
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Teachers = Free Agents
The old rules are gone. Loyalty? Long gone. Waiting for tenure? No longer necessary. In the education world, there is a new reality. It's this: the best teachers are…
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Email Templates
You just sent out an email notifying families that back to school information is available in the parent portal. Within ten minutes, you have a dozen emails with very…
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Rinse and Repeat
Productivity doesn't care what happened yesterday. If you had twenty-five items on your To-Do list yesterday and didn't complete a single one, you don't need to feel bad about…
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The Advantage of Fallacies
Here’s the thing. At some point or another, we are all wrong. About something. Maybe a lot of somethings. And of course, we sometimes cling to our strongly…
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You Are Here
Ever get stuck standing in the middle of the mall, staring at the directory? The great big YOU ARE HERE star provides a helpful anchor in a sea of…
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The EZ Way Out
On my last day of student teaching, my students and cooperating teacher presented me with a gift basket of everything I would need to be a teacher. I was…
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5 Takeaways from The SECRET SAUCE
Today marks the fifth anniversary of The SECRET SAUCE: Essential Ingredients for Exceptional Teaching. I’m most proud of this book because it gives a novice teacher everything they need…
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The Power of a Spoon
Is that a spoon?! Trevor shared the below picture and said: "You'll understand once you listen." Trevor then shared a link to an episode of the Knowledge Project…