3 Quick- Subjectives, grading stinks, and modeling with Kelly O’Shea

Fairly often I find things online that I think are either terribly interesting, awesome, or thought-provoking, but don’t have either the time or the will or write anything in depth about how or why they’re interesting, awesome, or thought-provoking. I’d still like to share these items, so I’ve decided to make the 3 Quick a [...]

Alfie Kohn on Self-Discipline

Thanks to a tweet this morning by Will Richardson (@willrich45), I came upon the article “Why Self-Discipline is Overrated” written by Alfie Kohn and published in the Phi Beta Kappan in November, 2008.

5 bullet summary

Self-discipline is a trait that generally gets high praise from both progressive and traditional educators. However, Kohn points out [...]