Ben Esser has featured on the TLAC blog and in TLAC books as a teacher. He’s since moved to Chile where he supports and coaches colleagues. He recently shared this reflection on the culture-building magic of his colleagues, Maca Torres and Maria Jose de Vicente. Unimaginable as it may be in the northern hemisphere, in South…
To succeed in almost any classroom it helps to have a management system, a nexus of small scaled consequences and rewards you can use to process under-productive behavior and shape positive behavior efficiently and consistently. When you add that to a classroom that includes: • Discipline–a commitment to teaching students the right way to do things…
I’m writing from the C-terminal at O’Hare where I’m sitting out a 5-hour delay getting back home to Albany. Ever get that feeling that for every hour that passes another hour is going to be added to your delay? Anyway, I’m coming home from Colorado where I had the honor of leading a workshop for a…
Dianna Reagan is the principal of one of the schools in the town where I live. She’s data-driven, self-critical, focused on student achievement, and not afraid to take an unpopular stance if it will make her school better. She’s pretty much the person you want running your child’s school. Dianna sent me a thought provoking email…
I’m in California this week so have been slow to post and respond to comments…. but the great news (for me) is that I am out here to do a two-day workshop for teachers and leaders at the highly–and justifyably–vaunted Aspire Public Schools. I’m especially excited because I always learn a ton from the smart and reflective…