Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

11.19.14 Emily Steffan: Practice Makes Positive

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…