Jun 2, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
Hello everyone! In light of the tragedies facing the world and America today, I found it timely to bring this talk to teachers. I don't believe there has ever been a time in modern history when our…
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So [laughs] for years, I asked kids to get three-ring binders for the first several years, and it really di- wasn't anything.
It was just a place for notes, notes that they really didn't use, um, work that they would turn in that I would give back to them.
And I'd struggled for years to try to figure out what, you know, w- what's gonna be the best.
And what I was trying to do was I was trying to take the structure of my class and organize it into a meaningful way, when honestly, what I was doing wasn't that meaningful.
So when I decided to go with the notebooks that are similar the, the way that they are in the, to the, the, the iteration now, when I first started this [laughs] Down Towards Composition, it was so bad.
Um, I wanted them to decorate them, you know? I wanted them to own them, and d- everything got glued.
Um, stuff, there would be, like, stuff that was sticking to their notebooks and falling off as they were walking out of the door.
Um, they didn't know what a certain section was for whenever we got into the certain...
It is a lot smoother now, now that I can say, you know, uh, I take my notebook and I put it on the document camera all the time and I say, you know, "All right, I'm gonna think out loud for you," and I'll show them what this section's for, then what is it that we use this other section for, then what is it that we use this different one for.
Um, you know, how is it that it all comes together? And so while we're looking at those different parts of it, we're also looking at it as a whole piece too.
Like, you know, what, what is this going to do for me? Now that I have it in these different sections, what is this whole thing that I'm carrying now? So it was messy, but it-
'Cause, you know, and I, I think it's indicative of how simple this problem seems to be on its surface, but it's kind of difficult, right? 'Cause if we're trying-
So [laughs] for years, I asked kids to get three-ring binders for the first several years, and it really di- wasn't anything.
It was just a place for notes, notes that they really didn't use, um, work that they would turn in that I would give back to them.
And I'd struggled for years to try to figure out what, you know, w- what's gonna be the best.
And what I was trying to do was I was trying to take the structure of my class and organize it into a meaningful way, when honestly, what I was doing wasn't that meaningful.
So when I decided to go with the notebooks that are similar the, the way that they are in the, to the, the, the iteration now, when I first started this [laughs] Down Towards Composition, it was so bad.
Um, I wanted them to decorate them, you know? I wanted them to own them, and d- everything got glued.
Um, stuff, there would be, like, stuff that was sticking to their notebooks and falling off as they were walking out of the door.
Um, they didn't know what a certain section was for whenever we got into the certain...
It is a lot smoother now, now that I can say, you know, uh, I take my notebook and I put it on the document camera all the time and I say, you know, "All right, I'm gonna think out loud for you," and I'll show them what this section's for, then what is it that we use this other section for, then what is it that we use this different one for.
Um, you know, how is it that it all comes together? And so while we're looking at those different parts of it, we're also looking at it as a whole piece too.
Like, you know, what, what is this going to do for me? Now that I have it in these different sections, what is this whole thing that I'm carrying now? So it was messy, but it-
'Cause, you know, and I, I think it's indicative of how simple this problem seems to be on its surface, but it's kind of difficult, right? 'Cause if we're trying-
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