This video is for coaches. Mostly. It’s about how to make some apparently simple changes that can make your practices dramatically more efficient and productive. And it can help you build the sort of culture you want into your team as well. But I should note that this is also about a topic that’s central to…
With Teach Like a Champion 2.0 lining the shelves of a book store near you, we’re back at the tiller at TLaC Towers, studying and learning from teachers. Recently we watched a lesson of Derek Pollak’s at North Star High School and were pretty inspired. We liked this clip in particular and Maggie Johnson volunteered to…
Today’s been a banner day- we’ve spent it with 50 or so teachers from across Uncommon Schools, talking about how to make writing more rigorous in the classroom and to help ensure that it supports broad and strong literacy skills. One of our topics was Show Call, but since Uncommon teachers are already experienced Show Call…
My new favorite word is ‘pause’- especially when it’s used in place of the word ‘stop.’ We’ve been discussing this a lot lately at our workshops- in a lot of different settings. Consider, for example, a ‘rally-killer,’ a student who hogs the stage at exactly the wrong time: you ask for a piece of evidence that…
My colleague and co-author Erica Woolway and I spend a lot of time watching video of great teaching with our team. Often times the things that excite us most are the things that are the most mundane- a teacher mastering some small challenge that all teachers struggle with, with deftness and skill. So useful! That’s just…