Lord knows I feel some misgivings about my favorite books–my favorite teaching books–being made into movies. I wrote about my Giver angst here for example. But superstar English teacher Maggie Johnson sent me this note about the making of The Outsiders and the role one plucky librarian played that’s almost worthy of a movie itself. The…
Emily Steffan, Assistant Principal at Batiste Cultural Arts Academy, a ReNew School in New Orleans, recently attended one of our Train the Trainer workshops in which we analyzed and discussed 8 or 9 key techniques for raising academic expectations and increasing engagement and practiced, practiced, practiced them. After the workshop we had a great conversation about…
My colleague Dan Cotton, who’s guest posted here and here recently, visited Vicki Hernandez’s 7th Grade Science Class at Troy Prep Middle School a few days ago observing a lesson that made him wish he’d had his video camera. He tried to capture some of what Vicki did in this write-up: A few days ago, I had the…
Had a great meet-up over coffee with David Weston end of last week and my head is still spinning. David is a former math and science teacher in the UK who now runs Teacher Development Trust, a non-profit that studies research on what works in teacher professional development, encouraging and supporting schools in executing those things-…
Sunday evening in London, and I’m unwinding from an amazing two-day Train the Trainers workshop at Ark All Saints Academy on Thursday and Friday for top UK educators, co-presented with Erica Woolway (@EricaWoolway) and Colleen Driggs (@ColleenDriggs). Before the workshop Lucy Frame, the principal at All Saints looked at the list of attendees and said, “Wow….