One of the most powerful things we can do in classrooms is to allow for frequent formative writing… and in fact to make formative writing a routine for students. Especially when we make it a routine to write formatively in response to rich content. I want to share a beautiful video of the why…
In a follow up to our last post on the Yerkes Dodson curve, TLAC CAO Erica Woolway reflects on a recent study that has important implications for the start of the school year. This study came out of the Czech Republic in 2023 by Klara Sedova and Martin Sedlacek. The researchers used two data streams…
This past year TLAC’s reading team partnered with a group of Reading Reconsidered Curriculum teachers and leaders from across the country to study reading fluency. Fluency – as we share in our new book, The TLAC Guide to the Science of Reading – is an overlooked prerequisite to comprehension. It is defined, most simply, as “the…
We recently had our own bit of “back to school” on team TLAC. We have Content Development Meeting every Monday as a way of building our own knowledge and understanding of what makes great teaching and also so that we can build our capacity as facilitators. TLAC CAO and President Erica Woolway offered this reflection….
I’ve got 23 amazingly useful seconds of video to share with teachers starting the year and wanting to build positive, orderly, productive classroom habits. Our teacher here is Sarah Stackhouse, a third grade teacher at Nashville Classical Charter School in Nashville, TN. In the video we can see Sarah nail something we call the What To…