Training with a new feedback system has worked wonders in the NBA. Could writing teachers learn from this? John Maguire has taught writing for decades at a half dozen New England colleges, including Boston University. He developed his first-year Readable Writing course while at the Berklee College of Music, and he blogs on the subject of…
Got a new Cold Call video to share with you. It’s of Brittney Moore, who teaches third grade at Troy Prep Elementary in Troy, NY. The video includes three different examples of Cold Call and my team and I loved each one. EA.ColdCAll.GR3.Moore.’So hard to choose.’Clip2958 from TLAC Blog on Vimeo. In the first, students are…
Earlier this week I wrote about how important the ability to sustain focus is to almost every worthy cognitive endeavor, and how it is harder and harder to achieve that in a society that fractures our concentration and fragments our time. As I discussed in this review, your average time on task as an adult is…
My team and I have spent the last year developing a knowledge-driven English curriculum and watching teachers pilot the lessons with their classes. One of the biggest takeaways is how much the students enjoy it. The lessons are unusually joyful. In fact one of our favorite clips on joy–I blogged about it here–was of Sarah Wright…
We’ve been working on a middle grade Reading Curriculum (or is it an English Curriculum?) for the past year. It’s built around high-quality complex novels and designed to implement many of the ideas in Reading Reconsidered- Plus in terms of its approach to writing and background knowledge, it seeks to go where no curriculum has gone…