Working on Reading Reconsidered this morning, my book on reading with Colleen Driggs and Erica Woolway. Found myself going a bit manifesto in this tiny–but strident–snippet on the power of teaching books–real books- the whole thing: We are strong believers in ‘the power of the book,’ of students building a sustained relationship with a text over…
First, a shout out to Martin West and Matthew Chingos for a really sensible and balanced assessment of the why and how of annual testing: why it matters so much and how it works, which in turn tells us why we need to do it every year. The net is this: It’s like spinach. We don’t…
My son is a soccer junkie- a football junkie I should say because if you used that word with him he would think first of it in the rest of the world’s usage. If you asked him about football last week, he’d tell you about Palace beating Spurs more than Colts beating Broncos We watch…
This morning I got up early to write. At about 6:30 I wandered into the living room to find that my daughter was downstairs already, sitting quietly over the heat vent- it was negative five degrees Fahrenheit here this morning. I needed to get some work done, but my rule is, I work until my kids…
This video is for coaches. Mostly. It’s about how to make some apparently simple changes that can make your practices dramatically more efficient and productive. And it can help you build the sort of culture you want into your team as well. But I should note that this is also about a topic that’s central to…