For our video meeting this week, Chief Video Officer, Rob Richard promised the TLaC team clips that were ‘new’ and ‘pretty exciting.’ Now, Rob is not given to hyperbole. ‘Pretty exciting’ on the Rob-o-meter is pretty serious praise so the pre-meeting buzz was, let’s just say, intense. With good reason, it turns out. We’d just received…
The Teach Like a Champion team has spent the last few years working with teachers in a group of schools in Houston Independent School District. We end each year with a site visit to observe and learn–how are schools using the techniques? What makes training effective? What are the challenges? TLaC team members Rob Richard and…
In a somewhat incredible coincidence, I received a fascinating and self-reflective email from my colleague Gail McGee last night. At almost exactly the same time I was posting about our (people, that is, or at least American’s) imperviousness to improvement in our driving–due in significant part ot the lack of feedback–Gail wrote to me about the same…
Last night, in Houston, we went out for dinner and my hosts introduced me to fried pickles and Frito pie at dinner, but today Grady Middle School they had something even bigger in store for me. At Grady, the game was on for real! Classrooms were rigorous and content-rich and TLaC-aligned. Here are some highlights: Check…