I focus on Daniel Willingham’s idea, “Memory is the residue of thought.” Trying to make sure that I know what I want the students to think about and ensuring that any unnecessary thinking is limited.

Carl Rogers did a lot of work on UPR. Another idea he had was self actualisation. Both of these were useful to me when working in Juvenile Justice.

I use this after an instruction. I thank 5 stds in turn for following instruction, repeating something about the task each time. 4th & 5th students are those who may not have heard or take longer to process. This way they have heard the direction 4 times and get caught doing the right thing.

I’ve never been able to work out why reading and writing conducted in history and geography etc can’t be considered as part of the literacy time. This provides real context to literacy activities.

Simple strategies, good explanations and an effective plan to develop writing as students progress through school.

A broad spectrum from talented artists & photographers to hate filled people who use belittling/denigration as commentary. To make my feed tolerable have muted words like Harris, Trump, Republican, Democrat -41 all up! Seems it’s only hate coming towards your in group, not going away from it.