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Lots of Participation; Lots of Thinking: Highlights from Jen Brimming’s...
We’re excited to share this fantastic video of Jen Brimming’s English lesson at Marine Academy Plymouth. Jen and her colleagues have been working hard to make their classrooms more energetic and...
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Video Review: Getting the Most out of the “Turn and Talk” (Video)
I’m back from vacation. That means goodbye for now to swimming in the river with my kids and falling asleep to the plurp of tree frogs at night, but it means hello again to video meetings with the team...
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TLAC 2.0 Excerpt: “Managing the Pause” During Cold Call
As many of you know I’m in the midst of revising Teach Like a Champion to reflect all the things champion teachers have taught me since I wrote the first version four years ago. This...
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‘Levels of Evidence’ and other thoughts on teaching students to stretch...
I watched an interesting lesson today, a pretty good one, in which the teacher asked her students to describe the setting of Amy Tan’s short essay “Fish Cheeks.” When one student did so—describing it...
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Tales of a Positive Outlier, Part 3: Nicole Willey’s Show Call (Video)
If you’ve seen the first two clips I’ve shared from Nicole Willey’s classroom at Leadership Prep Ocean Hill Elementary Academy, you’ll be thrilled to know there’s still more to come– and that the clip...
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A Front the Writing Discussion Template (And the Feedback We Got On It)
At our recent Ratio workshop in London we shared this sample page from a student work packet. It’s designed to help structure a student discussion about a text, though it could be adapted to any...
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They Were Skeptical But They Agreed to Try
A Willingness to Experiment is the Sign of a Healthy School Culture Got an email from a colleague this morning who’s using TLAC techniques in his school. He’d recently come to our “Ratio” training,...
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Building Mental Engagement Among Athletes Through Questioning
Coaches love to ask questions to help their athletes understand the decisions they must make during performance. This is especially true in group invasion games like soccer (football), rugby,...
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Whaaat??? Susie Kim Brings Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ to Life
Difficult reading about difficult lives… Just wanted to take a minute to share some fantastic video of Susie Kim’s 7th grade Social Studies class at Achievement First’s East New York Middle School....
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Rebecca Sloots: Building Ratio…and Great Writers in Queensland
Writers in the Making… The newest clip in the TLAC library is one that’s really worth watching. It’s of Rebecca Sloots’ grade 4 class at Fernbrooke State School in Redbank Plains, Queensland,...
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