A couple of weeks ago I listened in while a coach I admire reminded his team’s parents not to criticize the referee during a game. He made some really good points of which #1, as he noted, was by far the most important It models poor sportsmanship, directly in front of your own children It gives…
Earlier today I posted about a conversation we’d had at #TLaC towers on the topic of Exit Tickets. John Costello–one of my colleagues on Team TLaC–sent me an email with further thoughts on the post. He focused in particular on the critical importance of depth of information in revealing student thinking (and implicitly on the importance of…
Great conversation about Exit Tickets around the hearth at #TLaC Towers yesterday. Topic: Exit Tickets- Specifically, “What About Them is Most Important”? Our conversation was divided into two topics: blank Exit Tickets (what does a well-designed Exit Ticket look like?) and filled out Exit Tickets (what do you do with the data afterwards?). My biggest takeaway…
Somewhere in the warehouse where my publishers, Jossey-Bass, keep books, there are 700 copies of the original version of Teach Like a Champion. I assume Amazon also has a bunch in their vast array of warehouses too. But either way, at some point in the coming weeks those copies will be sold and that will be…
My colleague Maggie Johnson has been spearheading our work with a group of New York City Parochial schools. We’ve been learning a lot and sharing a lot with positive outcomes. Maggie describes some of the highlights below. Our team has been fortunate enough to spend the last year working with the Partnership Schools, an organization that…