Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

04.23.13 Little Tiny Parenting Insights

  Since I’m a parent people often ask me how writing Teach Like a Champion has affected my parenting.  The answer is: immensely.  I’m incredibly grateful to have had the chance to watch master teachers and motivators and inspirers at work for hours and hours and hours so I could try to copy and adapt at…


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03.13.13 How CFU 2.0 is Different

At our Engaging Academics workshop on April 11 and 12, we’ll be presenting and training on Check for Understanding (CFU) and about 9 more techniques.  Except that what we’ll be presenting is really CFU version 2.0–it’s informed by everything we’ve learned since we let teachers loose with version 1.0… the version described in Teach Like a Champion. How’s the 2.0…


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