Quit Teaching Basics

Before anyone gets offended, let’s reflect on the nature of teaching in the traditional sense. It often involves the delivery of information by a single individual. Only ONE person, whether it’s the teacher or even a chosen student in class to read aloud, work a problem or model a skill, is fully engaged. What is […]

The most important reason why we need to quit teaching and start designing learning is that teaching, in general and traditionally, is passive. Students come to class, get information or have skills modeled for them, then they complete work. Repeat for next class. Basically, we could replace this same process with Youtube videos and save

We want our students to improve. We want scores to rise. We want to see a turnaround in achievement, but what most do not realize is most of that happens when you overhaul what Tier 1 instruction is in the classroom. I read a great quote today, “Districts and schools cannot buy or intervene their

So before we decide to work together and make teaching into something that offers effective and meaningful learning opportunities like never before, we have to talk about our attitude towards change. We don’t like it. We think we have things all figured out. We know that what we are doing is working just fine the

For this first blog post, I want to apologize to all of the students I “taught” over the years. You may have enjoyed my classes, you may have learned some things, you may have even stopped me later at the grocery store or at the movies and told me how much you loved my class