Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

01.10.26 Sustaining Success: The Harmony Public Schools Story Continues

Harmony Public Schools keeps moving forward. We ultimately measure the success of our partnerships by what happens after our work with a school, district, or network has ended. Do key leader and teacher actions continue (and get even better)? Is student achievement strong and continuing to improve? By those measures, Harmony Public Schools is one of…


03.13.13 2.0 on CFU 2.0

I posted this morning about the power of building a Culture of Error in the classroom.  The idea is that if students try to hide their errors from you, you have to work twice as hard to find them, but if they WANT you to see them… if you tacitly agree that uncovering error and fixing…