We’re getting ready for our new two-day Behavior and Culture workshop in Tarrytown, New York on March 20th and 21st. This workshop presents our most up-to-date guidance on how to build strong classroom cultures based on high expectations for behavior and strong Systems and Routines. It will feature our latest insights, videos, and deep practice. Sounds so serious! …
My most popular post of 2014 so far was my post on the Stack Audit, which is one of my favorite tools for understanding, managing and improving what we do as an organization, especially a decentralized, autonomous and creative one. One reader–Christy–asked for some details on how we do it. At first i didn’t think there’d…
Great article by Chris Koentges last week in the Atlantic on the topic of how Finland became a hot spot—in the Daniel Coyle sense—for developing goalies. Here’s a link and six takeaways I had on the coaching front from reading the article. My observations are soccer-centric, but not hard to apply elsewhere I am sure. Love…
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…
I am an educator, but I am also a parent, and I am writing this blog post as a parent because I just figured out two things: 1) How to support the teachers in my kids’ schools doing hard and challenging work and 2) How to celebrate Valentines Day. Some explanation: I just met with a…