What I Want Them to Know but Hope to Show
On Friday, I’ll begin my twenty-sixth year of teaching. Most teachers will tell you the first-day jitters never go away, but this year, I’m feeling a new kind of trepidation. I spent the summer going deeper into the deprogramming pedagogy I’ve been slowly shaping—this time with deliberate attention to cognitive load.
Step by step, I considered how much s…

