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Training Judges for a Speech Tournament: A Reflection on How Students (Even Adults) Learn
e just finished hosting our first quarter speech tournament on Friday night. Our league, to our knowledge, is one of the largest middle school leagues in the country, and the coaches meet frequently to ensure that our tournaments run as
Speech and Debate Secret Sauce: Building Community in Any Classroom
As I’ve recently written, I am the coach of a very successful and very large middle school speech & debate team. It’s a huge job to coach all of these kids, but it’s amazingly rewarding. It’s rewarding to know that
Let’s Talk About Speech, Baby: Speech & Debate and the Common Core
Besides being a Language Arts teacher, I am also a Speech and Debate coach. I haven’t written about it too much, not for any reason other than I spend a lot of time geeking out over curriculum design in teaching
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