Dr. Hester's Blog

There’s a chance you’re trying to do such a good job for your students that you may actually be hurting them. We’ll come back to that in a minute. First, this: Overwhelm was #1. During the first session of the program I led this year in Boston, teachers identified which of the five pitfalls they were struggling with most. The answer was pretty clear: overwhelm. You can see a fairly representative poster from one of the table groups in the course here: As you and I know, the t