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    Sam Martineau
    • Jun 1
    • 5 min

    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...
    Sam Martineau
    • May 1
    • 11 min

    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...
    Sam Martineau
    • Apr 2
    • 8 min

    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...
    Sam Martineau
    • Feb 1
    • 12 min

    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...
    Sam Martineau
    • Jan 1
    • 10 min

    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...
    Sam Martineau
    • Dec 2, 2021
    • 4 min

    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...
    Sam Martineau
    • Nov 1, 2021
    • 7 min

    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...
    Sam Martineau
    • Oct 2, 2021
    • 4 min

    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...
    Sam Martineau
    • Sep 2, 2021
    • 4 min

    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...
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