Over the next couple of months, I’m going to be posting some excerpts from Reading Reconsidered here on Field Notes. This is the beginning of Chapter 5, which discusses how and how much students read. Reading Reconsidered: Chapter 5 Approaches to Reading: Reading More, Reading Better Consider, for a moment, how much reading you were required…
Navigator Schools is a small network of two high performing schools in California: Gilroy Prep in Gilroy and Hollister Prep in Hollister. Their results have been tremendous and yesterday I stumbled on a training video they’d made that I thought was fantastic. Not only that—I thought it provided a critical insight into how to train…
The TLAC team and I are heading to New Orleans after Winter Break, doing a two-day updated Engaging Academics workshop on January 11th and 12th. We’re excited to be presenting- it’s one of our best workshops–maybe the ideal ‘introduction to TLAC workshop–but this one should be especially interesting as it includes a few significant changes that…
My colleague Darryl Williams is one of the best people in the country at helping school leaders lead better schools by better understanding teaching and learning. You’d think that would be enough for one guy, but he also has a secret life coaching his daughter’s basketball team a couple of nights a week. She’s a fifth…
Loved this interview with Craig Barton. It was fun. We laughed a lot. We talked about Cold Call and Show Call and No Opt Out and Culture of Error. We talked about what’s gonna be in TLAC 3.0. And Craig gave a ton of insight from his experience as a math(s) teacher… such as “I spent…