UPDATE 12.7.15: Earlier this year I posted about some of the tensions between coaching for the long term development of players and coaching for the short term (i.e. to get wins now). You can read that original post below. Last week I got to spend two days talking teaching on the soccer field with 20 Academy…
Thousands of teachers used the Teach Like a Champion Field Guide to help them implement, trouble shoot and refine their application of the techniques in the first version of the book. Now that the first version has been revised and taken out of print and there’s a new improved version, some teachers might feel left in the…
Ronnie Seneque is a 16 year veteran teacher at Kramer Middle School in Southeast, Washington DC. It’s a high-need (100% frpl) school in one of the country’s fastest improving major school districts. He’s read Teach Like a Champion, Teach Like a Champion 2.0 and Practice Perfect in addition to having attended our workshops. Recently he wrote to…
If you read the first part of this guest post on the topic of peer tutoring by Kipp Infinity’s Jeff Li, you’ve probably been eagerly awaiting the second part. So here it is [Cue fanfare]. In this part Jeff describes what makes for a successful tutor and shares some of his student’s own reflections. WHAT MAKES…
Jeff Li is an 8th grade math teacher at KIPP Infinity in Harlem. Over the summer I started to hear soundings about his work with peer tutoring from various people I know in the city, and I reached out to Jeff to find out more. What he shared was pretty amazing, and after some prompting in…