School turnaround poses some of the most critical questions in education reform: Is it possible to take schools that are failing and, with the same kids, achieve better results? What are the keys to succeeding? Are the lessons and practices that yield results scale-able? The answers to these questions matter deeply…
There’s been quite a bit of chatter about Steve Kerr’s decision to “let the warriors coach themselves” this week. (Coverage here and here) I wanted to share a couple of thoughts. This was a neat move. Giving players leadership and ownership over their endeavors, done right, can be very powerful. And Kerr spoke about wanting…
The language we use to help people know how to grow and improve is important. When we give feedback, we’re giving technical information but we’re always also building culture between and among us at the same time. I found myself thinking about language when I recently heard some coaching interactions on the youth sports field but…
Radar is out term for your capacity to see your class accurately for what it is. It’s a critical teaching skill. Decision-making always starts with perception–the more accurate the perception the better the decision. The psychologist David Berliner has studied this among teachers and found that novice teachers observing a classroom often fail to perceive them…
In TLAC 2.0 I tried to describe some of the tiny little things that top teachers do that create a ton of learning value in their classrooms. One of them is the ‘self-interrupt‘… a tool for making sure you aren’t trying to talk over students when it matters, and for gently setting the expectation that you…