Inside my classroom setup for the year — communication, Analog Roots, and the Mastery Viva rework, MasteryFlip  Students walk into Room 231 tomorrow, and this week I’ve been doing everything I can to be ready for them — inside the MasteryFlip framewor...

What an AI-proof classroom actually looks like on a Tuesday morning—and how to test it in your school. Last week we talked about the techlash schools are facing. Parents, community members, policymakers, and teachers are clamoring for less tech. Thoug...

An operational manual for district leaders to protect student cognition, eliminate automated shortcuts, and humanize instruction | Episode 83 Schools everywhere are reconsidering technology. Cell phone bans are sweeping multiple states, and districts ...

After a week of paper, pencils, and profound overwhelm, it’s clear why our kids can't keep hitting the "AI Easy Button" | Episode 82 It’s been a long time since I was the dumbest person in the room. This past week, I attended an AP Physics C (Calculus...

This past week, I returned home from my Fuller Center Canyon Cycling Adventure, where I cycled about 700 miles and stopped to help those who are home-challenged. That was one part emotional, one part physical, and one part spiritual. I came home to my ...

Doing hard things, out-of-shape regrets, and a summer roadmap to human-proofing student cognition before the fall. If you are listening to this on Monday morning, I am already out on the asphalt, somewhere on the road for the Fuller Center Bike Canyon...

Right now, I am in my workshop looking over a staging pile of cycling gear. I’m getting ready to head out on a 750-mile trek with the Fuller Center for Housing, riding from Salt Lake City down through Bryce Canyon all the way to the rim of the Grand Ca...

Dispatches from Curitiba: Why medical deans are racing to bring back Socratic friction to save human cognition Live From Curitiba I am standing in my hotel room in Curitiba, Brazil, completely energized and absolutely exhausted. I just wrapped up del...

The 42-Year Calculus Challenge I just walked out of my end-of-year evaluation with my assistant principal, and I was handed my assignment for next fall: AP Physics with Calculus. I am one part excited and one part completely terrified. I am a chemist b...

👉 Listen/Watch the full episode above. You need to hear the tone and emotion of this week’s message. The Sunday Epiphany This week started in the green room at church. I was talking to one of my bandmates on the worship team, and he confessed somethi...