Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

04.24.26 Lessons from the TLAC Math Workshop: Normalizing Error and Building Knowledge

In February, the TLAC team led its first-ever national Math-specific workshop in Houston, TX, where we joined math educators from around the country in a deep study of research-backed techniques for responding to error, building lasting knowledge through retrieval, and effective (re)teaching. Suffice it to say, it was a big success, and we learned a ton…


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…