Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

05.02.14 Fear is the Enemy of Success—An Elite Coach on Embracing Error

About a year ago the US Soccer Federation helped me identify four top performing youth soccer coaches around the country.  The idea was to study them in much the same way I’d studied elite teachers for Teach like a Champion and then to write profiles of them to make their ideas visible to other coaches. The…


06.12.13 Questions about Dweck

Got a note from a veteran teacher in Virginia about Carol Dweck. I actually get versions of this question pretty often so I figured I’d reply in blog-form. She wrote: I wonder what you think of the work of Carol Dweck. Do you think that her Fixed vs Growth Mindset theory and Brainology curriculum designed to…