Dr. Hester's Blog

Life update: This coming year, I’m going to be a teacher at Chavez High School in Stockton Unified School District.

This past October, I was so flagrantly behind on the deadlines for my doctoral capstone paper that the director of my program reached out...

I’m back! And I’m officially Dr. Hester now. It’s been 398 days since I last shared a blog post here. That’s a long and lame delay! My...

Over the course of this year--my second here at Harvard--I’ve had the good fortune to get connected with two outstanding people: Crystel...

In the last post , we learned about research that found that some educators, in an effort to help their students, actually ended up hurting them. Why? In short, because they don’t prioritize effectively. Let’s figure out how to change that. Below, I’ve outlined a method that can help you avoid the feeling of overwhelm that befalls so many educators. It’s based on an idea that changed my life: The Eisenhower Principle. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. In...

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...

The clock struck midnight. The first day of the school year had officially begun. And I was in my classroom. Frantic. I’m not describing...

In my last post, I wrote about the idea for a professional development program to help early career teachers overcome the pitfalls that...