At our Engaging Academics workshop on April 11 and 12, we’ll be presenting and training on Check for Understanding (CFU) and about 9 more techniques. Except that what we’ll be presenting is really CFU version 2.0–it’s informed by everything we’ve learned since we let teachers loose with version 1.0… the version described in Teach Like a Champion. How’s the 2.0…
I recently got a request for more examples of Joy Factor at the middle school level. As I was watching some great new footage from our pals over at Achievement First, I noticed this Joy Factor moment from AF Bushwick Middle School’s Eric Snider. Some thoughts as you watch: We always try to…
Got an email last week from Lindsey Hugo at the consistently high-performing Edward Brooke Charter School in Boston. Lindsey’s 6th graders have been reading The Giver, which earns her instant glory points for rigorous text selection and for choosing what the gang here at Uncommon thinks is one of the very best works of youth fiction….
I recently wrote about my fascinating visit to a start-up medical school, founded on the idea that better teaching ought the be more central to medical education. The University of South Carolina Medical School, Greenville is brand new this year and really serious about the power of teaching and practice in preparing doctors. The administration selects…
Over at TLaC Towers we hold a weekly cutting log meeting (CLM) where we watch video clips of high performing teachers. We use the clips to learn and reflect and also to design workshops and training activities. At last week’s CLM we screened this clip of Uncommon High School’s Kameelah Rasheed teaching Ancient Civ., and…