The TLAC team has been thinking a lot lately about combinations of techniques. What are the techniques that work well in synergy? What are the peanut butter-and-jelly, pairings of techniques where the melding of flavors makes the whole more than the sum of the parts? Why do such pairings and groupings work so well? What’s the…
Helen Howell is English AST and Lead Teacher for Literacy at The Radclyffe School in Oldham, Manchester, UK, where the school has recently moved from Ofsted’s ‘requires improvement’ rating to ‘outstanding’ and enjoyed their best ever English results in 2016. As a result of their recent focus on using academic language, building oracy and grammar skills…
My colleague Dan Cotton has been thinking, and writing about relationships in the classroom. In previous posts he looked at how a teacher’s instructional competence can directly effect his or her capacity to build trust with students and the manner in which fostering genuine achievement was critical to all enduring teacher-student relationships. In his third and…
My colleague Maggie Johnson has been leading our work with a network of inner city Catholic schools in NYC. We’ve learned a lot and have been plenty inspired. Maggie shared this update: We’ve just wrapped our second year of work with Partnership Schools, six pre-K through 8th grade Catholic schools that serve over 2,000 primarily low-income…
My colleague Josh Phillips had one project he was most passionate about this year: Camp Uncommon– which involved running two week summer camp for 115 of our middle school students from five cities on the campus of Maine’ s Colby College this past summer. To say is was a success is an understatement so I asked…