Ask Yourself
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Ask Yourself

  Here’s a simple goal for today. Ask yourself this question:What do I have to say? Then go out and say it. You can say it out loud.You can write…
What If Wednesday #5
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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…
WHWTSHTF?
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WHWTSHTF?

  It’s going to happen. You know it will. And there’s only one question you need to ask of yourself when it does happen. WHWTSHTF? Seriously. What happens? How will…
Creating Creates Creativity
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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…
I Do We Do You Do
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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…
Deciding Who’s Going to Decide
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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…
How Ideas Become Powerful
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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…
Questions We Should Be Asking Students
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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…