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A World of Plastic Words

The Screens in the Classroom?

What Should "Support" Look Like?

What does an A even mean?

How to Make Reading Meaningful for Students

What Has This School Year Taught Us?

The Problems We Cannot Fix

Finding Meaning in Teaching

Bringing Something New into the Classroom

A Better AI Conversation

On Empty Desks

Closing the Distance Between Home and School

A Good Lesson and an Important Lesson

On Losing Patience

Adults are the AI Problem in Education

On Challenging Students

Uplifting Moves in the Classroom

The Heaviness of Teaching

Small Adjustments Can Matter

A Better, More-Authentic Assessment

New Goals for a New School Year

Where Learning Can Take Place

How Students See Their Own Learning

The Value of a 6-Week Check-in

Why I Love Spiral Notebooks

The Art of Classroom Conversation

When a student refuses to...

What I'm Doing With AI (I Think)

Ask Your Students How Class Is Going

Better Discussions in the Classroom

Building a Foundation for Collaboration

Taught For America, Pt. 2

A Close-Reading Tool For The Classroom

Taught For America, Pt. 1

What a School Can Be

Two Different "Day 1" Lessons

Let's Talk About Grading

Adrian and Marcus: Talking Teaching

What Middle School Can Be

Why I Love Teaching Poetry

The Classroom As It Is

The Difficult Margins of AI as a Teacher

AI in the Classroom

A Vision Document for Your Classroom

A Culture of Revision

KTC #20: Trust Me—Choose Transparency

What My Students Had To Say About AI

Being a Teacher

A Storytelling Lesson

Let's Talk About Testing

KTC #19: Pause and Take a Classroom Pulse Check

Before You Return Feedback To Students

To Teach in This Moment

When To Hold The Line?

KTC #18: Add This Question to the End of Your Next Assignment

The Sentence That I'm Very Tired Of Hearing as a Teacher

"Is 100% Engagement a Myth?" with Adrian Neibauer

When a School District Intentionally Leans Into AI

Why I love writing (and why loving writing matters)

Writing in this AI Era with John Warner

KTC #17: Have Every Student Share a One-Word Answer

When You Ask Students To Reflect on Their Reflections

KTC #16: Find Your Ritual

What a 90-minute lesson can look like

"Becoming an Everyday Changemaker" with Alex Shevrin Venet and Adrian Neibauer

One day I'm going to miss this.