Recently, TLAC founder Doug Lemov was profiled in The Athletic for his work with Michigan Basketball head coach Dusty May. The article, which appeared just before Michigan won the national championship, described how May had studied video tape of his own teaching with Doug. Dusty sent Doug video of his film sessions with players and the…
In November, two of our facilitators, Erica Woolway and Sadie McCleary, made their way to the Southeast to visit and train a group of leaders and teachers in Fayette County Public Schools, about 20 minutes south of the ATL airport. Fayette County Public Schools invited us to do a Direct-to-Teacher workshop, where we discussed and practiced…
What makes us most optimistic about learning these days? The fact that thousands of schools, school districts (US) and trusts (UK) have adopted explicit, systematic phonics curricula, and that teachers that have been using them have been more intentional about using the science to shape instructional decisions. There is a lot of great progress to feel…
I gave my littlest a copy of Brave New World for Christmas and while I thought there was a pretty good chance she’d read it, I didn’t think she’d read it OG style. I found that out because I came home from a work trip on Friday evening and found her sleeping on the…
When I was teaching 5th grade, I knew that I needed to support my students’ fluency, but I had no idea how to do it. I had some students who came into my classroom reading beautifully, with ease and comfort. Other students were still struggling to decode, requiring prompting with each challenging word. However, the majority…