Teaching with Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More

Feeling overwhelmed—constantly, on a daily basis—has unfortunately become the status quo among educators. But it doesn't have to be.

Schools need to stop adding more programs, strategies, activities, resources, projects, assessments, and meetings.

Though they are often implemented with the best intentions, these things ultimately end up as clutter—that which inhibits our ability to help students learn.

Instead, teachers need more clarity, which emerges when we prioritize our efforts to do les...