About a year ago the US Soccer Federation helped me identify four top performing youth soccer coaches around the country. The idea was to study them in much the same way I’d studied elite teachers for Teach like a Champion and then to write profiles of them to make their ideas visible to other coaches. The…
A quick blog post in response to a bit of Twitter among fellow educators about TLAC: Specifically how do you use it and get the most out of it if you’re using it in a school.. or even on your own. Suzanne noted that her school was going to be reading it next year. (By the…
Rarely have I looked forward to a trip as much as I looked forward to my family’s visit to Williamsburg last week, and rarely have I found myself so disappointed, so struck by the gap between what was and what might have been. Sometimes I’ll visit a school and get a similar feeling. There’s complacency in…
I’m a big fan of Paul Bruno’s- love reading his posts on Alexander Russo’s This Week in Education blog at EdWeek, follow him on Twitter, find him spot-on when I agree with him and thought-provoking and sensible when I don’t, even though I suspect I might be one of those people who he dismisses as being…
Screening video this week, I was reminded of some posts from earlier this year on keeping discussions “disciplined”… that is, “inside the box” and on-topic. They’re, here here and here in case you missed them, but the idea is that true discussion happens when a group identifies key topics and develops them rigorously and at some…