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CHAPTER 1. Teaching Toward Everest Long-Term Flourishing: The Peak of Peaks Permission to Simplify Let's Focus on What We Already Know The Gist PART I: START WITH THE HEART CHAPTER 2. Cultivate Key Beliefs Why Beliefs? The Five Research-Based Beliefs That Drive Student Learning Behaviors (and How to Cultivate Them) What I've Learned to Be True About These Beliefs The Gist PART II: MAKING MASTERY CHAPTER 3. Build Knowledge Purposefully and Often The Criticality of Knowledge Promising Practices Toward Meaningful Knowledge Building The Gist CHAPTER 4. Argue Purposefully and Often The Argument for Argument Cultivate an Earnest and Amicable Argument Culture Increase the Quantity of Argumentation in Your Classroom Improve the Quality of Argumentation in Your Classroom The Gist PART III: LITERACY-RICH LEARNING EXPERIENCES CHAPTER 5. Read Purposefully and Often The Case for Reading Throughout the School Day A Focused, Sensible Approach to Reading Throughout the School Day for the Long-Term Flourishing of Our Students The Gist CHAPTER 6. Write Purposefully and Often The Case for Writing Throughout the School Day A Focused, Sensible Approach to Writing Throughout the School Day for the Long-Term Flourishing of Our Students Sanity Check: Mentally Disentangling Grading From Feedback and Better, Saner Tips for Tackling Both The Gist CHAPTER 7. Speak and Listen Purposefully and Often The Case for Speaking and Listening Throughout the School Day A Focused, Sensible Approach to Speaking and Listening Throughout the School Day for the Long-Term Flourishing of Our Students The Gist CHAPTER 8. Onward and Upward Pick a Project Commit to This, and Nothing Else, for a Long Time A Gift for You Acknowledgments References and Recommended Readings Index