These 6 Things

Dave Stuart Jr. is a husband and father who teaches high school in Cedar Springs, MI. His blog, DaveStuartJr.com, is read by over 50,000 educators each month, and his bestselling These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most has been cherished by teachers and leaders around the world. Dave is also an accomplished creator of professional development experiences, having led hundreds of impactful experiences for teachers in every US state and multiple countries abroad.

Dave Stuart’s These 6 Things is among the most helpful, passionate, practical, and insightful teaching resources I have ever come across. It is brimming with simple, practical—and exceedingly realistic—suggestions and strategies for immediately improving the quality of schooling and student work—starting tomorrow. These 6 Things is an impressive and arrestingly written book by a working teacher. I hope it gets a wide reading.

• CHAPTER 1. Teaching Toward EverestLong-Term Flourishing: The Peak of PeaksPermission to SimplifyLet’s Focus on What We Already KnowThe GistPART I: START WITH THE HEARTCHAPTER 2. Cultivate Key BeliefsWhy Beliefs?The Five Research-Based Beliefs That Drive Student Learning Behaviors (and How to Cultivate Them)What I’ve Learned to Be True About These BeliefsThe GistPART II: MAKING MASTERYCHAPTER 3. Build Knowledge Purposefully and OftenThe Criticality of KnowledgePromising Practices Toward Meaningful Knowledge BuildingThe GistCHAPTER 4. Argue Purposefully and OftenThe Argument for ArgumentCultivate an Earnest and Amicable Argument CultureIncrease the Quantity of Argumentation in Your ClassroomImprove the Quality of Argumentation in Your ClassroomThe GistPART III: LITERACY-RICH LEARNING EXPERIENCESCHAPTER 5. Read Purposefully and OftenThe Case for Reading Throughout the School DayA Focused, Sensible Approach to Reading Throughout the School Day for the Long-Term Flourishing of Our StudentsThe GistCHAPTER 6. Write Purposefully and OftenThe Case for Writing Throughout the School DayA Focused, Sensible Approach to Writing Throughout the School Day for the Long-Term Flourishing of Our StudentsSanity Check: Mentally Disentangling Grading From Feedback and Better, Saner Tips for Tackling BothThe GistCHAPTER 7. Speak and Listen Purposefully and OftenThe Case for Speaking and Listening Throughout the School DayA Focused, Sensible Approach to Speaking and Listening Throughout the School Day for the Long-Term Flourishing of Our StudentsThe GistCHAPTER 8. Onward and UpwardPick a ProjectCommit to This, and Nothing Else, for a Long TimeA Gift for YouAcknowledgmentsReferences and Recommended ReadingsIndex