How to Make Your Practices More Efficient

My 2025 AVCA webinar

Here are the video and my slides from my 2025 AVCA webinar, “How to Make Your Practices More Efficient”.

Since I mentioned it at the beginning, here are a couple of links to Juneteenth resources:
National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Juneteenth page
Historian David J. Kent’s explanation of the Juneteenth flag

The video is over 50 minutes long so I don’t think it will show up in the email. You can go to the web version of this post to see it.

Please reach out with questions, thoughts, opinions, etcetera. I’m always open to hearing from you.

Link to the slides

Here are links to resources I refer to in the presentation.

• While there’s plenty of stuff out there about folk pedagogies, I borrowed from Sports Coaching Cultures for the definition that appears here.

• The metaphors of the gardener and the carpenter come from Alison Gopnik’s book of the same name.

• The concept of authenticity I quoted is from Judith Rink’s paper called “Teacher Education: A Focus on Action”.

• The Logic of Appropriateness comes from James March’s work, I pulled it from a book called A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen.

• The concept of the reflective discussion comes from Donald Schön’s book, The Reflective Practitioner.

Video:

You can read the presentation here:

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