Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

09.18.18 GUEST POST: Ruth Brennan Morrey on Teaching Players to Observe

  Teaching players to see and understand what’s happening around them is a critical issue in coaching–especially in soccer. It’s something I’m writing about in an upcoming book on the topic and it’s something I’ve tried to share other coaches‘ ideas about, especially the idea that some of the work of building perception can happen in…


08.08.18 Announcing TLAC Online!

Setting yourself up to practice well. This week we are making a set of 24 online self-study modules aligned to Teach Like a Champion techniques available to educators everywhere. We think these modules can help teachers learn and develop their teaching skill and therefore ensure greater student success and achievement—and we think they can help teachers…


05.24.18 Dan Cotton on Building Relationships and Trust: An Index Post

  A little over a year ago, my colleague Dan Cotton wrote a series of posts about relationships in the classroom that were unusually insightful and that I keep coming back to. I often want to forward them to someone or reference them as a group. To do that I have to send three links and…


02.14.18 “Steve Kerr Let The Warriors Coach Themselves.”

  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…