Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

05.19.23 Steve Kuninsky’s Amazing Habits of Attention Roll Out (Video)

  Two of the most important culture building techniques in Teach Like a Champion are Habits of Attention and Habits of Discussion. Habits of Attention is about teachers shaping the non-verbal signals students send to one another when they are talking. When the people in the room are looking at you–and looking a bit interested–you are…


05.04.23 Tracking in Classrooms: What I Really Think (and Wrote)

Every so often Teacher Twitter turns itself to the topic of tracking and “SLANTing” in the classroom- basically whether student can and should or can be asked to look at one another when they are speaking in the classroom and whether its reasonable to ask them to sit up.  That time has arrived again over in…