Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

07.16.13 Video Review: Getting the Most out of the “Turn and Talk” (Video)

I’m back from vacation. That means goodbye for now to swimming in the river with my kids and falling asleep to the plurp of tree frogs at night, but it means hello again to video meetings with the team at Taxonomy Towers, so there’s that. Today we watched video of several teachers including North Star High School’s…


05.03.13 Jessica Bracey: Control the Game and Fluency (video)

We just added this clip of North Star Academy’s Jessica Bracey to our collection… we filed it under Fluency and Control the Game (CTG) though we aren’t yet sure which technique we’ll use it for during our workshops.         In fact what we love about it is the synergy it shows between Fluency and…