March Madness Championship!
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March Madness Championship!

Four O'Clock Faculty has been taken over by March Madness, Secret Sauce style! Eight strategies from The Secret Sauce: Essential Ingredients for Exceptional Teaching have gone head to head and…
March Madness, Semifinal #2
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March Madness, Semifinal #2

  For the next two weeks, Four O'Clock Faculty will be taken over by March Madness, Secret Sauce style! Eight strategies from The Secret Sauce: Essential Ingredients for Exceptional Teaching…
March Madness, Semifinal #1
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March Madness, Semifinal #1

  For the next two weeks, Four O'Clock Faculty will be taken over by March Madness, Secret Sauce style! Eight strategies from The Secret Sauce: Essential Ingredients for Exceptional Teaching…
Delayed Beauty
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Delayed Beauty

  Sometimes you go through an experience and find yourself in the position of being miserable about it. Maybe you feel like you shouldn’t be there. Maybe you wish you…
Tongue Out
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Tongue Out

  In observing my son when he is extremely intent on doing something, I notice that he sits in concentration, with his tongue out, pressed firmly between his lips. It…
Craft in the Real World – Some Takeaways
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Craft in the Real World – Some Takeaways

  I just finished reading Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses. The book examines how stories are told, who tells them and how…
A List of Visual Design Tools
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A List of Visual Design Tools

  I’m often asked which tools I use to create the graphics and visuals for the Four O’Clock Faculty website. Over the years, I explored different tools, but I have…
Classroom Jobs, Part 2
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Classroom Jobs, Part 2

  Earlier this week, I wrote about a podcast I listened to about using classroom jobs to motivate and engage students remotely. I had the chance after I posted to…
Let the Writers Write
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Let the Writers Write

  Have you ever had that student in your class, the one who can’t stop writing? Each day, it’s a new story. Or a continuation of a story. The student…
Classroom Jobs
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Classroom Jobs

  I recently listened to a Cult of Pedagogy podcast episode about Classroom Jobs. As a former 5th grade teacher, I implemented a system of jobs/credits/debits to motivate students and…