There’s one of those articles again today. It’s in the Atlantic. Again. It observes that, ‘Curiosity is under-emphasized in the classroom, but research shows that it is one of the strongest markers of academic success.’ “Marker’ is a tricky word there. It sounds quasi-medical. It kind of makes you think that curiosity leads to success….
Darryl Williams is TLAC’s Senior Fellow for School Leadership. He helps organizations use our tools more effectively within their schools to help teachers–and therefore students–succeed. His eye for instruction is honed through years spent as a teacher, principal and senior district leader. He loved a clip we watched recently and thought it would be especially…
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Stuart Singer, who works with athletes to help them master the mental aspects of performance. As we talked I realized there was a lot of overlap between our areas of interest- from a coaching perspective and more broadly from a teaching and learning perspective. He agreed…
Yesterday I shared Maggie Johnson’s thoughts about a great bit of writing instruction in Gabby Woolf’s classroom. The connection to the amazing sentence-development work of Judith Hochman also struck my colleague John Costello. He reflects further on it in this guest post: Here at TLaC towers we love observing teachers who focus on sentence-craft to build…
We’ve been thinking a lot about writing these days- nothing new there. But watching a lesson from King Solomon Academy’s Gabby Woolf really got our own Maggie Johnson reflecting. She shared this post. This morning during our weekly Video Review Meeting, we watched a clip of our very own TLaC Fellow, and one of London’s…