Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

09.11.13 Order Drives Student Achievement… In 31 Countries: Refections on OECD’s Analysis

Great piece today from OECD (the organization that produces the PISA assessments and where one of education’s true super heroes, Andreas Schleicher, works) on order in the classroom.  It summarizes the results of their study and analysis of school across all nations participating in the 2009 PISA. The findings are clear, direct and unambiguous. I summarized…


03.28.13 Blogging the Un-Bloggable: School Bathrooms

This is definitely my first blog post about bathrooms. Perhaps it is yours as well, but actually I think they are worthy of some discussion.  At least school bathrooms are.  And for two reasons: 1)      Former NYC parks commissioner Henry Stern once observed that bathrooms become the sites of society’s least palatable behavior.  They awaken something…