TLAC is excited to share our newest Plug and Plays that were authored, along with this blog post, by our colleague Alonte Johnson-James. The biggest barrier to students’ comprehension is often word knowledge or vocabulary. The biggest barrier to teachers’ abilities to support students is often understanding the best approach(es) to use in helping students to…
Setting yourself up to practice well. This week we are making a set of 24 online self-study modules aligned to Teach Like a Champion techniques available to educators everywhere. We think these modules can help teachers learn and develop their teaching skill and therefore ensure greater student success and achievement—and we think they can help teachers…
Spent the day in Nashville, observing training (and new teachers) at TNTP’s Nashville Teaching Fellows program. Pretty outstanding program. Gonna post more later about the great things they do to prepare new teachers for the classroom. In the meantime I thought I’d share this tiny little—but really powerful—artifact from my visit. This was on the wall…
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…
I’m writing from the C-terminal at O’Hare where I’m sitting out a 5-hour delay getting back home to Albany. Ever get that feeling that for every hour that passes another hour is going to be added to your delay? Anyway, I’m coming home from Colorado where I had the honor of leading a workshop for a…