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Procrastinators might chop up tasks into smaller pieces so they can work through a more manageable series of assignments. Counseling might help them recognize that they’re compromising long-term aims for quick bursts of pleasure. The idea of setting personal deadlines harmonizes with previous work done by behavioral researchers Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch on “precommitment.” Read More …

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It is possible to teach students how to write as a way to make meaning rather than fill pots. The problem is that it’s much more difficult for both student and teacher. For students, it takes a lot longer to get better at writing this way, and the path to improvement is littered with the Read More …

Literacy rebels present institutionally-placed sponsors with a complex challenge. As I have shown in my analysis of their literacy narratives, adolescent rebels dismissive of the “values and pedagogies” of school-based writing fulfill an adolescent imperative by seeing their disengagement from school-based literacy experiences as a sign of their emerging autonomy from the authority of significant Read More …