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What If Wednesday #5
Asking What If questions can be a powerful tool to lead toward thinking critically about the problems that we face in education. Asking What If questions can help us…
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Creating Creates Creativity
We tend to think that artists, or people in creative fields, have an idea and then do work to express that idea. In reality, artists, and people in…
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I Do We Do You Do
I love the gradual release model of I Do, We Do, You Do but I find a lot students benefit from a more modified version that looks a bit…
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Deciding Who’s Going to Decide
In Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling rule #12 is, “Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th -get the obvious out of the…
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How Ideas Become Powerful
It’s simple really. Ideas become powerful when they are shared. Ideas like to be shared. Ideas want to be shared. Ideas need to be shared. It’s what gives them…
Planning for Sick Days
Planning for a sick day can actually be worse than just going in sick! Not any more. Find a different way. Rich
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Questions We Should Be Asking Students
For many years, we have asked students small questions. Detail questions. Fact questions. Who? What? Where? When? We must ask big questions of students. Some of our questions have…
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4 Questions (for the Future of Education)
What are we "preparing" kids for? Ask any teacher what they are preparing students for and you will get a variety of answers. "I'm preparing them for middle school."…
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The 4 Hour School Week
I recently listened to the Unemployable podcast with Tim Ferriss, who is the author of several books including the Four Hour Work Week. While the book is several years old…