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I have spent the better part of my life constructing arguments. Since 1998, policy debate tournaments have been a large part of my life. Argument construction is my identity. Arguments are the air I breathe. Competitive debate does something to rewire the way you think about argumentation and the world that is genuinely difficult to explain to people who are outsiders of that world. It makes you see every claim as something that needs support, every position as something that
I have been teaching for almost twenty years. That sentence used to feel like a credential. Lately, it has started to feel like a question. Not in a crisis-of-confidence way, I love this job as much as I ever have, maybe more! But in a genuinely curious way. What would I do differently if I started over? What would I build if I forgot everything I had already created and started from the standards up? This past year gave me an unexpected answer to that question. As an academi
Let me tell you about three professional development experiences from my career. All different content, yet one common thread endures. My very first PD session as a first-year teacher was a video about working with special education students. It used language and terminology that had been considered outdated for years. Nobody in the room flagged it. Nobody acknowledged it. We watched it, we signed the attendance sheet, and we moved on. I left knowing less about how to serve m
