Great conversation about Exit Tickets around the hearth at #TLaC Towers yesterday. Topic: Exit Tickets- Specifically, “What About Them is Most Important”? Our conversation was divided into two topics: blank Exit Tickets (what does a well-designed Exit Ticket look like?) and filled out Exit Tickets (what do you do with the data afterwards?). My biggest takeaway…
Somewhere in the warehouse where my publishers, Jossey-Bass, keep books, there are 700 copies of the original version of Teach Like a Champion. I assume Amazon also has a bunch in their vast array of warehouses too. But either way, at some point in the coming weeks those copies will be sold and that will be…
My colleague Maggie Johnson has been spearheading our work with a group of New York City Parochial schools. We’ve been learning a lot and sharing a lot with positive outcomes. Maggie describes some of the highlights below. Our team has been fortunate enough to spend the last year working with the Partnership Schools, an organization that…
Last week I posted a clip of a positive outlier, 3rd grade teacher Nicole Willey from Leadership Prep Ocean Hill Elementary Academy in Brooklyn. It showed, among other things, how she used Check for Understanding to ensure that she knew how all of her students were doing, and how she built her Ratio so the kids did…
Yesterday I wrote briefly about a question some colleagues and I once asked teachers during the interview process: We’d all like to do everything we can for all of our kids, but sometimes we have to choose. If you had to choose between a) increasing your students’ skills and knowledge and b) increasing their self-esteem,…