The quotation at the top of this blog post comes from The General, Bobby Knight, the legendary Indiana University Basketball coach (and folk legend). We discuss it today at our workshop on Check for Understanding with 100 or so educators from around the country. There’s a strong connection between planning and success in the domain of…
Thanks to everyone who came to our Ratio workshop in Albany yesterday. As always we were honored to work with you and learned a lot. And as always we didn’t have time to talk about everything you might want to talk about. We promised you a link to share the idea of Question Delegation, which I…
One of the highlights of my recent trip to the UK was the day I got to visit two life-changing schools in a single day: King Solomon Academy and Mossbourne Community Academy. Really, both schools deserve about a week of observation to do them justice but even with such inexcusably short visits it was hard not…
Just about a month now and Teach Like a Champion 2.0 will be out in stores. Here’s a tiny little preview: a discussion from the Systems and Routines chapter on the power of routines on the academic side. Basically when you have a procedure and routinize it you make what you do more efficient (so you…
Posted on Friday about the topic of Tacit Accountability after several really productive days reflecting on developing coaches (and other teachers) with folks from the US Soccer Federation and affiliated organizations. The idea is that in developing people–coaches, teachers, students, players–we want to build a culture where the expectation is that feedback gets used and where…