Harmony Public Schools keeps moving forward. We ultimately measure the success of our partnerships by what happens after our work with a school, district, or network has ended. Do key leader and teacher actions continue (and get even better)? Is student achievement strong and continuing to improve? By those measures, Harmony Public Schools is one of…
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…
If you’ve read the Coach’s Guide to Teaching, you know how important perception is to decision-making, especially when a decision has to be made faster than about 5-6 hundreths of a second–which is how long it takes to think consciously. Basically a better athlete makes better decisions because his or hereyes are in the right place…
Doug recently got a note from a teacher in Texas who had read our recent book, The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading, and was especially interested in making social studies classes more writing intensive. This teacher was curious that we don’t show many graphic organizers in the book, unless blank…
One of the most powerful things we can do in classrooms is to allow for frequent formative writing… and in fact to make formative writing a routine for students. Especially when we make it a routine to write formatively in response to rich content. I want to share a beautiful video of the why…