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Process Over Outcome

I had a conversation with a student recently in which he identified a key turning point in my class. He said he had prepared really hard...

Creating a Culture of Responsibility

A core memory as I built up the Wasatch Independent Debate League, and now the Independent Education Program, isn’t particularly pleasant...

Freedom in Education is Good, Chaos is Not

I love teaching in the homeschooling community so much, because there is just so much to love. The students, the parents, teaching in...

The Most Important Thing You Can Do For A Student

As an educator, the most important thing you will ever do for a student has very little to do with teaching. It has to do with saving...

How to Help Troubled Students

Some students will make you feel like a great teacher no matter what you do. Success lives inside them so fully, it seems to spill over...

Ask Them to Listen to You Less

In the midst of my student teaching (I was teaching Debate and History at Davis High School), I was meeting in my college education class...

More Than Just a Curriculum

“I don’t even know what changed but I used to feel like I didn’t want to be myself, and I was ashamed of myself all the time. But I don’t...

A Meaningful Definition of Propaganda

To begin my class each week, I will present to students a scenario for us to discuss and debate. The scenario will center on some...

What Actually Works in Education?

In my time in education, I’ve come across or been presented a number of theories of how education works or should work. These have...