Discoveries

Is Classroom Discussion a Dying Art?

“There's this fear, and I'm not even sure that it's conscious, that if they say ...

Books I read in December 2024

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in December 2024… The Industries of the ...

AI in elementary and middle schools [NAESP]

Liz Garden, my co-Fellow for the National Association of Elementary School Princ...

Building a new, student-centered school [NAESP]

Liz Garden, my co-Fellow for the National Association of Elementary School Princ...

Depth of Knowledge and leading PD [NAESP]

Liz Garden, my co-Fellow for the National Association of Elementary School Princ...

How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

A collection of prompts and phrases that give students the tools to participate ...

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Multitasking in School

Multitasking sneaks into our classrooms and interferes with learning, and it hap...

When Your Classroom Management Goes Off the Rails

It can happen to the best of us: classroom management deteriorating over time. B...

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2025

Three more AI tools, a platform for creating interactive lessons, a video editor...

How to Do a Close Reading Lesson in Any Subject

All teachers — not just English teachers — need to be incorporating reading inst...

Why Don’t We Trust Students?

As someone who regularly works with teachers on topics like blended learning, Un...

The Tao of Cal

Between this newsletter, my podcast, my books, and my New Yorker journalism, I o...

After You Vote: Unplug

I’m writing this post about eighteen hours before the first polls open on Electi...

The Perfect Cheating Machine?

Many predictions and concerns tumbled into the slipstream trailing ChatGPT’s daz...

The TikTok Ban Is About More Than TikTok

On Saturday night, in compliance with a law that the U.S. Supreme Court had just...

Lessons from YouTube’s Extreme Makers

In 2006, a high school student from Ontario named James Hobson started posting t...

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