Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

03.06.24 Memo Sifuentes’ Halftime Framework for Young Athletes

  Memo Sifuentes coaches the u14s (and formerly the u12s) at Austin FC’s Youth Academy. I always find him incredibly thoughtful and intentional about the teaching part of his job. We’ve been talking a bit over the past year about game day coaching: what to do to maximize long-term learning at halftime, in pregame talks, during…


03.04.24 Lesson Delivery Models and Lesson Prep

In our previous three posts, we described lessons learned from our partnership with Harmony Public Schools as they endeavored to strengthen a culture of Lesson Preparation across their 60 campuses. Our team defines Lesson Preparation as consisting of 3 core practices:  Plan the Exemplar Plan for Error Plan the Means of Participation   (For more on…


03.01.24 Seeing Change: Harmony’s Artifact Study System

Studying implementation with network leaders As we’ve shared in our first and second posts, we were fortunate to partner with Harmony Public Schools as they endeavored to deliver high quality professional development systems focused on Lesson Preparation for 300+ instructional leaders across 60 campuses.  In this post Dan Cotton and Dillon Fisher discuss how they worked…


01.26.24 Look Mom, I’m a Podcaster

  “Don’t take this the wrong way,” my 15 year old daughter said, pressing pause, “But I really expected this to be boring. I’m kind of pleasantly surprised.” We were in the car. “This” was an interview I’d done with Amy Forrester and Adam Boxer, two teachers from the UK whose help I’d asked comparing the…