Over the past few years I’ve come to believe more and more strongly in the power of the sentence as a tool for developing proficiency in reading and writing. The fundamental problem, for students who don’t write or read as well as they could, is often that they aren’t good enough at creating sentences that capture…
My colleague Paul Powell has been working on a training for teachers on writing in math class—how to include more of it and how to use it to deepen understanding and rigor. He’s done some great work in laying out and thinking about all the different types of writing that can happen in a math class…
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…