{"id":23,"date":"2022-06-07T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2023-01-13T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:50:49","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?page_id=23","title":{"rendered":"Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates has-author wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?p=265\">Pondering Passion<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Christopher Burgess<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-05-20T11:50:36+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">20 May 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Forgetting your&nbsp;Why Midway through 2020\u2019s un-precendence, Zadie Smith published a book of personal essays. In one of these, she lays out plainly her reason for writing: I empathize with Zadie Smith when she says later that admitting writing is merely \u201csomething to do\u201d smacks of false humility. Of course, these feelings of perceived insincerity must\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?p=265\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Pondering Passion<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?p=257\">School is Supposed to be Boring<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Christopher Burgess<\/div><time datetime=\"2023-05-14T14:25:59+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">14 May 2023<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Imagine this common scenario. A teacher is starting a new lesson on some abstract idea\u200a\u2014\u200aimaginary numbers, angular momentum, Shakespearean prosody, something like that\u200a\u2014\u200aand a student asks the following question: \u201cWhy are we learning this?\u201d You\u2019ve heard this before. You\u2019ve probably asked it before. As an English teacher who teaches novels and plays frequently, I hear\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?p=257\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: School is Supposed to be Boring<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?p=155\">Bring Equity to your Classroom with Contracts<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Christopher Burgess<\/div><time datetime=\"2023-01-13T12:57:03+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">13 January 2023<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Introduction: The Problem with Averages Traditional grading is one of those things so fundamental to our understanding of school that we think it\u2019s somehow obvious, necessary, or even objectively correct. Yet, traditional grading systems, and the type of classroom culture they tend to foster, are full of problems. These problems, as obvious as they\u2019ll soon\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?p=155\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Bring Equity to your Classroom with Contracts<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?p=239\">My Teaching Philosophy<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by admin<\/div><time datetime=\"2023-01-12T15:39:09+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">12 January 2023<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Reading and writing are different skills that don&#8217;t necessarily inform each other\u2014 in my career I&#8217;ve met both prolific readers who struggle with sentence structure, as well as great writers who hardly ever read. Because of this, I try to approach the two aspects of English Language Arts\u2014 writing and literacy\u2014 as separate skills which\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/?p=239\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: My Teaching Philosophy<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"post-index-2","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crburgess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}