Books are finally having their moment in the sun. In a series of recent articles, journalists have laid bare the frightening trend of the dwindling of books in American reading classes. The New York Times featured, short excerpts, a trend that is all too common in classrooms across the country. Others have argued that books…
I had the pleasure of presenting at Amplify’s “Science of Comprehension Symposium” on Friday. My topic was the often overlooked role of fluency as a bridge to comprehension. I showed some videos and I wanted to post them here with a few notes. First, this beautiful clip of Gabby Woolf reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case…
On February 10 and 11 we’ll be in Houston for something new and exciting–our first math-specific teaching workshop: Checking for Understanding in Math. We’ll discuss topics we’d cover in a typical CFU workshop–gathering data, perceiving and responding to errors–but look at them all through a math lens: What and how do we use and adapt…
What a pleasure to get to share our newest clip with you all. It’s a bit of teaching gold from Lauren Burke at Angleton Junior High in Angleton, Texas. The term Means of Participation (MOP) is key to unlocking what’s so great here. The idea is that how students answer a question is often as important…
I’m continuing to work my way through Williams & Jackson’s “Anticipation and Decision Making in Sports. It’s excellent but dense and technical –“I read it so you don’t have to”–so here are some takeaways from the very useful Chapter Five, by Christian Vater et al: “The Role of Peripheral Vision in Sports and Everyday Life.” Vater…