Teach Like a Champion 2.0 comes out tomorrow. I’m excited and at the same time, I’m a tiny bit distracted as I am “on deadline” writing, with Erica Woolway and Colleen Driggs, our magnum opus (that term is tongue in cheek) on literacy: Reading Reconsidered. Writing, I am reminded every time I am foolish enough to…
Spent some time a few days ago observing teachers at Success Academy Harlem East. I was there because their results are consistently off the charts so I was interested to observe and potentially learn a little something. I also wanted to go because there’s maybe a bit of skepticism out there in some quarters about Success’…
When I get asked to speak to audiences about teaching I try to make a couple of points: 1. The challenge is that we don’t have an achievement gap. We have achievement gaps: between children of privilege and the rest of our children, yes, but also between any school and the single best school; between our…
I’m really glad that Teacher Quality has become the focus of so much of our discussion about making schools better, pretty much across all sectors and types of schools (and even across nations). That’s pretty much as it should be: It’s pretty clear that quality of teaching is the thing that matters and the way to…
One of the new techniques I describe in Teach Like a Champion 2.0, (due out in early January) is Show Me. It lives in one of the two chapters on Check for Understanding and describes ways that students can present data to teachers so they can quickly and efficiently scan to assess mastery during class. A…