Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

04.26.21 The First Steps Back: My Best Bet For Summer School

In a year of massive educational challenges schools now confront the latest new challenge.  How to bring students back to the classroom after a year of reduced learning and social isolation, with dramatically increased inequity. This raises the question: What to do first—over the summer perhaps, even before the new year starts–especially in the area of…


03.14.13 Hanging Out with Scap, J. Conrad and Billy Budd

Spent the morning watching English classes at the Albany Academy (and the Albany Academy for Girls) with my old friend Alisa Scapatici, who appears to go now by “Scap”… at least to the kids.  Subject for another blog but I always wanted to have a cool one syllable teacher nickname like that. Incredibly useful to see what the…