Hey! I'm Oskar. I create resources that make teaching easier for teachers and learning simpler for students.
What’s Crush School About?
For nearly a decade of my teaching career, I spent too much time worrying about maintaining control and telling my students what to do and not enough time being a person willing to change myself and my methods to help them change their outcomes.
My light bulb came on just before I burned out. My son’s birth changed everything. I wanted to be a good father and I realized that what I do and how I do it in other realms of life impact me as a whole. I needed to get better as a husband, teacher, friend, and human.
First therapy. Then empathy. Now, I share a flexible learning space and find happiness walking among my students. I ask them how they are and what they need and want. They often don’t know what they want but if I look closely and listen intently I can make out what they need. I learn from them. I get schooled by them which prompts me to seek answers from the education mentors living in the Cybersphere. I don’t mind the work because it helps me grow.
I come here to reflect on things I see and read and try to grow some more. I write articles sharing what I’ve learned about living, teaching and learning, how these things intersect, and how I use them (and sometimes confuse them).
It’s up to me to make learning better and still keep it real for my students. So I try new things. I create unique learning experiences. Sometimes I fail, I figure out why, and I share insights and alternatives here. When I strike teaching gold I get super excited and I share it with anyone willing to listen.
I aim to be theoretical and practical… and human, because I’ve learned that’s the most important play in the teaching game. I explain the what, the why, and the how and usually give resources teachers can use in their courses.
Simply put, I am making up for my decade of darkness by coming up with ways for teachers to kill it so students can crush it.
Products
I create templates, posters, lessons, and digital notebooks that help teachers spend more time teaching and less time preparing.
I write books that help kids and adults figure out how to learn new things faster and retain them longer by using their brains the way they’ve evolved to learn (which is often not how school is).
I write in a conversational, maybe controversial style. If you're looking for dry, academic language… I’m not sure my books are for you. Click here to decide.
What others say
Kelly, a CEO, writes on Amazon:
The author's style reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell in that he combines a little science, a little wit and lot of his own brilliant mind to create a book that turns the seemingly obvious, but surprisingly difficult into the totally understandable.
Jon Harper, a podcast host, says:
Much like Don Quixote, Oskar is a mad dreamer who sees things that the rest of us do not. Oskar has a way of making things that are complicated, seem simple.
Christine D. Israel, a parent and teacher, writes in her review of Crush School:
Speaks right to teens. Thank you for saying everything I've been trying to tell my son in a language he understands! Easy to read and understand. Short and to the point. Great for the short attention span of teens.
Work with me
Listening to someone talk to a filled auditorium can be inspiring, but unless you pause the speaker to think their words through and take notes while they wait, you will learn little. Thus, I rarely speak.
But if you have a cool idea you can run it by me: oskar@crushschool.com
I might say yes (but I’ll probably say no).
