When I was teaching 5th grade, I knew that I needed to support my students’ fluency, but I had no idea how to do it. I had some students who came into my classroom reading beautifully, with ease and comfort. Other students were still struggling to decode, requiring prompting with each challenging word. However, the majority…
I recently tackled Jane Eyre, the Bronte sisters having escaped my assigned and pleasure reading in high school and college. As an adult reader of the novel, I was struck how many of the principles of the science of reading that we describe in The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading influenced…
Harmony Public Schools keeps moving forward. We ultimately measure the success of our partnerships by what happens after our work with a school, district, or network has ended. Do key leader and teacher actions continue (and get even better)? Is student achievement strong and continuing to improve? By those measures, Harmony Public Schools is one of…
Somewhere in the warehouse where my publishers, Jossey-Bass, keep books, there are 700 copies of the original version of Teach Like a Champion. I assume Amazon also has a bunch in their vast array of warehouses too. But either way, at some point in the coming weeks those copies will be sold and that will be…
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…