Jen Rugani is the newest member of Team TLAC. She’s a former Principal at Leadership Prep Canarsie Elementary in Brooklyn and a former TLAC teaching fellow. As a teacher and school leader she felt pretty strongly about what the start to a good school year looked like so a recent video really caght her eye….
Sadie McCleary, Chemistry Teacher extraordinaire and Science Department Lead at Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School, is a good friend of Team TLAC. She’s a TLAC Fellow and constantly keeps in touch to share ideas she’s adapting and developing. And she has a special interest in Knowledge Organizers. This year she’s been trying to support other…
Some of my readers will remember Michael Laser. He wrote a guest blog here a few years ago about the issue of chronically poor student writing at the college level. He’s been working on a system to develop and improve his students’ writing and–music to our ears–he’s focused on the foundational skill of sentence craft. He…
I mentioned in a tweet yesterday that I had finally started making progress again on a book I’ve been working on for some time called The Coach’s Guide to Teaching. A lot of people wanted to know more about it so I thought I’d share an excerpt. This is the introduction and overview to the section…
Recently I stumbled across this article thanks to Carl Hendricks’ recommendation. It describes the work of Maryanne Wolf, who set out to map some of the results of what is the elephant in the room for all of us who teach reading. That the book is losing in the battle for relevance with the phone…