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11.24.16 Check for Understanding: Courtney Huber’s ‘Master Clip’ Shows How

This week in our video review meetings we cut a master clip of Courtney Huber, a fourth grade teacher at North Star Academy’s Vailsburg Elementary School in Newark. We call it a master clip because it is a case study in the use of all the parts of Checking for Understanding woven together. It starts as…

With Teach Like a Champion 2.0 lining the shelves of a book store near you, we’re back at the tiller at TLaC Towers, studying and learning from teachers. Recently we watched a lesson of Derek Pollak’s at North Star High School and were pretty inspired. We liked this clip in particular and Maggie Johnson volunteered to…

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11.24.16 Check for Understanding: Courtney Huber’s ‘Master Clip’ Shows How

01.11.15 Maggie Johnson: How Derek Pollak Excavates Error (Video)

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