Tag: teaching
What students taught me, what I tried to teach them, and the craft of showing up for a classroom every day.
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I Value Them Too Much to Let It Poison How I Feel
The hardest thing about loving your students is watching them become people with opinions you can’t stand. Here’s…
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Find Me. I’m Trying to Find You.
An open letter to my former students. I lost 4,000 of you when my Facebook was hacked. I’ve…
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Playing With Purpose: The Creative Inheritance
Exercise 18 of 20 from the Playing With Purpose Student Edition. From Book 9: The Teach (Exercises in…
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Playing With Purpose: The Teaching Fable
Exercise 17 of 20 from the Playing With Purpose Student Edition. From Book 9: The Teach (Exercises in…
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It Just Doesn’t Matter
After 25 years telling students I don’t care about grades, and I mean it every single time. What…
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My Brain Doesn’t Work Like Yours. That’s Not a Bug.
Every teacher saw a distracted kid doodling in class. The reality: the pen moving was the only thing…
