At TLAC towers, we recently viewed a clip of Math teacher Kate Butrie of Williamsburg Collegiate implementing the Show Call technique. (Show Call is Cold Calling students by taking their written work and projecting it; if you’re looking for it in your copy of TLAC, you won’t find it; it’s new to TLAC 2.0!). What really impressed us…
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…
One of the great things about Teach Like a Champion—to me—is how quickly what’s in the book gets improved on and added to by great teachers and educators. There’s so much I’ve learned since writing the original that I can’t wait to add to a second edition someday. If there were one aspect of classroom instruction I’d want…