Last week I shared two blog posts here and here about my week-long trip to England the week prior, in which I visited two really fascinating schools. The week ended with a two-day workshop in London on the topic of Checking for Understanding, co-sponsored by Ark Schools (thank you Victor Voutov, the king of workshop…
We recently shot an amazing round of video in Scott Wells’ classroom at Goldsmith Primary Academy in Walsall…. We generated clip after clip of masterful teaching several of which we’ve already begun sharing in workshops. In fact I had the pleasure of showing a clip of Scott Checking for Understanding to participants at a session…
Engineering student success. In this second post on our work on math achievement with schools in the Memphis School Leadership Collaborative (MSLC), Joaquin Hernandez shares some of our learning from one of the champions of the MSLC, 8th grade teacher and instructional coach at Memphis Rise Academy, Madi Bienvenu. Closing Gaps Via the Do Now…
A Math Crisis: In the offing long before it made headlines… A lot of what we do on our team boils down to wiring ourselves for learning: confronted with a teaching and learning problem, we try to assemble the right people and design the right processes to find solutions. One way we do this is…
A few days ago I started a blog travelogue about my week in England with a summary of my trip to Ark Soane Academy in London. The next day, Wednesday, I was in Bristol to visit Blaise High School which is a fascinating and impressive case study in turnaround. When the current leadership Greenshaw Learning Trust…