Jeff Li is an 8th grade math teacher at KIPP Infinity in Harlem. Over the summer I started to hear soundings about his work with peer tutoring from various people I know in the city, and I reached out to Jeff to find out more. What he shared was pretty amazing, and after some prompting in…
Recently I observed a very good high school reading teacher leading a lesson that did a lot of things well. But the lesson also struggled with some very common challenges, especially around the idea of Close Reading (a topic we discuss extensively in our forthcoming book Reading Reconsidered) and it got some of us at TLaC…
Two weeks ago we watched footage of Erin Krafft, a 6th grade teacher from Houston Independent School District’s Revere Middle School. We blogged about how she installed a beautiful and productive system to ensure quality discussions during her Turn and Talks. This week we want to share another tiny moment from Erin’s teaching. It’s a seemingly…
Look, we know we want the kids to have a growth mindset and to embrace a “Culture of Error“– in which kids like struggle and challenge and in which getting it wrong is a key tool for getting it right. We know we want the kids to think, “Oh, good. This is going to be hard!”…
My son started high school this year and among other things the process has caused me to reflect on some current ideas in education I have not paid much attention to….one of these is the “flipped” classroom, which is the way at least one of his teachers runs class. The idea behind the flipped classroom in…