I’m on my way back from New Zealand today. In the course of doing some training down there for NZ Rugby coaches, I met a music teacher from the South Island named Sam Hadfield. He’d been experimenting with a few carefully chosen techniques—Cold Call, No Opt Out, Right is Right—in his classroom with generally positive…
I feel a bit anxious every time I write a post that applies something I’ve learned about teaching to parenting. I always remember the feeling of being a parent when everyone thinks they know better than you. So I will state that I am most certainly NOT a parenting expert, but every once in a while…
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…
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…