Teach First’s Harry Fletcher-Wood has a new book coming out: Ticked Off: Checklists for teachers, students, and school leaders. Imagine Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto applied to the world of schools. Our team has been all giddy with anticipation since long before we found out that one of his checklists is for designing effective practice activities for…
For our video meeting this week, Chief Video Officer, Rob Richard promised the TLaC team clips that were ‘new’ and ‘pretty exciting.’ Now, Rob is not given to hyperbole. ‘Pretty exciting’ on the Rob-o-meter is pretty serious praise so the pre-meeting buzz was, let’s just say, intense. With good reason, it turns out. We’d just received…
As many readers of this blog know, Colleen Driggs, Erica Woolway and I are finishing the manuscript of our forthcoming book on literacy, Reading Reconsidered. This morning, in fact, I was editing the introduction to a chapter called “Writing for Reading,” a discussion of the synergies between reading and writing and how to unlock more of…
I’ve posted several times recently with guidance and reflections on Exit Tickets (here and here, for example. Or even here) but this morning I got a fascinating note from Leanne Riordan, who teaches are Holabird Academy in Baltimore. She wanted to share some clever ideas her colleagues are using to include a level of self-monitoring and…
Here’s a tiny little clip from MK Pope’s classroom at Bed Stuy Collegiate in Brooklyn. It’s just under a minute in length but that minute can, I think, teach us a lot about Stretch It, Wait Time and the mindset of a successful teacher. It’s a pretty simple clip but definitely worth a bit of study. …