As many of you probably already know, Grant Wiggins died suddenly yesterday. He’ll be remembered not just for his thought leadership but for the model he set for civilized, respectful, professional debate. I agreed with many things he wrote and saw some things differently… but I always learned something every time we spoke or interacted, and…
I read the following quotation this morning in an article in Fast Company on the future of college (italics mine): “Charging people lots of money to provide them with skills they could learn from an Internet video is probably not gonna be a viable long-term financial model,” says Richard Miller, president of Olin College of Engineering….
The following is taken from chapter 4 of Teach Like a Champion 2.0. It’s one of my favorite sections of the new book. It’s natural for teachers to write lessons that focus on what they will be doing: which key points they will cover, questions they will ask, activities they will facilitate, work they will assign,…
Rue Ratray is one of my heroes. He’s an amazing and inspirational teacher (and now teacher coach) in Lawrence, MA. I recently asked him to write an occasional guest blog for Field Notes. This is his latest, on the topic of Rigor and Frustration. Great ideas throughout for teaching reading, especially. I don’t think anyone reading…
Another excerpt coming at you from the throes of finalizing Reading Reconsidered. This excerpt is on our two-pronged approach to Vocabulary. To command words is to master both their breadth and their depth. Reading for anything more than basic comprehension relies on the a reader’s capacity to understand both a large number of words (breadth) and also…