HeyJaredThe Science of Dialogue
High school English teacher | Exploring dialogue & classroom conversations | Writing about educational practice
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Facilitation is fine, but schools need leadership (opens the original)
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I spent three years out of the classroom working in education reform — visiting dozens of schools, sitting in classrooms, walking buildings alongside leadership teams doing instructional rounds. I watched a lot of adults talk about teaching without ever having to teach that day’s lesson themselves. When I came back to the classroom, I told myself I’d be quieter about it. I’m now in my second year back as a high school English teacher, and I have not been quieter about it. My dissertation is lite
Put the person before the agenda (opens the original)
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Years ago, in the middle of my graduate work, I fell into a rabbit hole around a construct called teacher collaborative efficacy — the shared belief a group of teachers holds that, together, they can move student learning. The more I read, the more I realized efficacy beliefs don’t come from nowhere. They come from talk. So I followed the thread sideways into a related literature on <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C19&q=teacher+collaborative
Why you should talk before you write (opens the original)
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This newsletter passed a thousand subscribers this week. Thank you. I started it to think out loud, and it turned into a conversation with a lot of you that has changed how I teach, how I coach, and how I write.If you’ve read here for any length of time, you’ve heard me talk about Don Quixote — specifically the sixth chapter of Part I, the night the priest and the barber burn Quixote’s library. I keep coming back to i
Contradictory demands are everywhere in teaching (opens the original)
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My student teacher is carrying most of the load in her placement now. She plans it, she runs it, the calls in the room are hers. My wife and I have ended up having almost the same conversation over dinner most nights this back-to-school season — not about lesson plans, but about the sheer number of small choices a teacher makes concerning the kid in front of her and the adults around her.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1517590440605-44b39f4b23
Teaching trade-offs are hard to observe (opens the original)
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Last spring, my student teacher spent the semester in my room watching me run lessons and helping with small groups. Solid apprenticeship. This fall, I handed her two of my classes outright — her plans, her pacing, her calls — starting day one. I’m still in the room, but the teaching is hers.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1429743305873-d4065c15f93e?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw1fHxkZWNpc2lvbnxlbnwwfH
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