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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You Can’t Teach Making by Explaining It
After 25 years of teaching design, the hardest lesson: you can’t teach making by explaining it. The tools…
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The Hardest Thing to Unlearn Is the Habit That Still Works
About this post: The habits easiest to break are the ones clearly failing you. The hardest to question…
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Meet Me Where You Are
My entire teaching philosophy fits in one question: where are you, and how can I lead you to…
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The MySpace Classroom
I used MySpace to teach CSS before anyone called it social media literacy, and then I flipped it…
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What It Looks Like When a Teacher Actually Sees You
A 1.2 GPA and an attitude problem walked into a military academy. The teachers who saw past both…
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The Difference Between Authority and Impact Is Whether You Listen
The difference between authority and impact is whether you listen. I spent 25 years learning that the hard…
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The Resume Problem: Why My Students Can’t See Their Own Skills
My students can’t see their own skills. It’s not confidence — it’s a language problem that starts before…
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The Doodler
I spent most of my childhood being told to stop doing the one thing that actually helped me…
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You Don’t Have to Choose One Life
You don’t have to choose one life. I didn’t, and the contradictions are what make everything work.
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Military School Gave Me Nightmares and an Identity (Both Still With Me)
Military school gave me nightmares and an identity. Both still show up when I least expect them.