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EduTip 20: Don't give out your slides.
Feb 12, 2023Many teachers give out copies of their slides as a supplement to a lecture or presentation, but this practice leads to terrible slides and ultimately, ineffective teaching. In this EduTip I'll share a...
204: Authentic Group Discussions with the Real Talk Strategy
Feb 05, 2023After years of listening to shallow, perfunctory student discussions, ELA teacher Jessica Cannata found a way to make those conversations more natural, more interesting, and more real. In this episode...
203: What Happens When Two Schools Experience the Street Data Process?
Jan 29, 2023In episode 178, we learned about an approach to school change called Street Data. I believed so strongly in this methodology that I asked the two authors of Street Data, Jamila Dugan and Shane Safir, ...
EduTip 19: Help students learn each other's names.
Jan 15, 2023The time students spend in your classroom may be the only opportunity they have all day to engage with other humans in any meaningful way. And it's such a shame to waste that by letting them stay in s...
202: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2023
Jan 11, 2023A messaging platform that translates messages into any language, a daily curation of current events, the one everyone's talking about that writes essays for you, and more: Here are six tools we think ...
201: How to Build Psychological Safety in Professional Development
Dec 17, 2022Learning requires us to be vulnerable, and in order to do that, we need to feel safe. In this episode, I talk with Elena Aguilar, author of The PD Book, about how professional development facilitators...
200: Ten Ways to Give a Better Lecture
Nov 16, 2022Two factors have given lectures a bad name: overuse and poor execution. In this episode we'll deal with both of these issues, considering when a lecture might be the best choice, then looking at ten t...
199: How to Personalize Instruction with Seminars
Oct 17, 2022Offering small group mini-lessons that students only sign up for if they are interested is another great way to offer personalized instruction. Author and writing instructor Melanie Meehan returns to ...
198: Where to Find Real History in the Anti-CRT Era
Oct 04, 2022We are living in a time where a segment of the population is working as hard as it can to keep our students ignorant of history. Dozens of states are attempting to erase history from textbooks and cur...
EduTip 18: Avoid assignments that are TOO open-ended.
Sep 25, 2022While it's true that student choice has a lot of value, it's possible to give so much choice in an assignment that it kind of backfires. When a task has little to no structure at all, students often r...