My colleague Erica Woolway is Chief Academic Officer of the TLAC team and my co-author on Practice Perfect and Reading Reconsidered. She’s also a mom to three fantastic boys and recently shared this blog post about how she borrowed an idea from one of our videos when reading with them at home. It’s characteristically insightful and…
We just finished the clip list for our upcoming one-day workshop on ‘Systems and Routines‘ this morning. ‘Systems and Routines’ is TLAC for the process of building procedures into the fabric of your classroom so the things you (and students) do repeatedly, you do well. We’ve shifted the emphasis even more strongly towards what we call…
Our last two-day workshop of the year is one of our best: Ratio. We spend two days covering techniques to help teachers ensure that students do the cognitive work in the classroom. And it’s the perfect way to prepare for next (school) year and ensure that it’s a success. One theme is to get there by…
Next year we’re re-working our Engaging Academics workshop to spend more time on the techniques teachers use to manage their Pacing–to make a lesson feel fresh,exciting and new even while it lingers on a key topic for a sustained period of time–to make learning substantive and rigorous but to also ensure sustained attention from students. This…
I do a fair amount of work in the sports sector: mostly working with soccer/football and rugby federations and professional franchises, talking about developing players better by teaching better. At first I felt guilty about this work, even though I love it. How could I justify spending my time on that when public schools look like…