The second in a series of profiles I did of top soccer coaches appears in SoccerAmerica magazine today. It’s based on an observation of a great training session by Chris Hayden of FC Dallas’ youth academy in which I try to analyze how Chris gives his players lots of constructive feedback but does it in a…
From TLaC 2.0: The Whisper Correction Take a minute to watch this clip of Jason Armstrong’s math class at Roxbury Prep. You’ll notice that Jason makes two corrections of students who are off task. Both of them are essentially public. He’s standing in front of the class when he makes them. But Jason makes them feel…
If you listen to some critics, TLaC is a book with sixteen chapters on making kids stand in line and not much else. I always find that ironic. First because there is great honor in doing the thankless work of building a respectful positive and productive classroom environment, and that fact would be clear beyond any…
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…
I write a lot of emails entitled “Two Quick Things.” Scrolling back through my sent mail it seems that one quick thing is almost entirely unlikely to get me to write to anyone and three quick things is apparently cause for procrastination. But TWO quick things: that is the email-generating sweet spot for me. And the…