Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

11.17.21 Charlie Friedman on Leading During a Difficult Time

Over the past month, we’ve been sharing resources that we hope have provided teachers and leaders with support in tackling many of the challenges of schooling right now. We’ve also been doing some learning ourselves, reaching out to partners in the field to understand how they’ve been approaching this unique time. We’re grateful to Charlie Friedman,…


11.10.20 Notes on Molly Maphis’ Phonics Lesson

We learned a lot from a video we recently watched of second-grade teacher Molly Maphis at Nashville Classical Charter School. Team TLAC’s Brittany Hargrove has worked extensively with elementary schools to help them build effective and engaging classrooms. She wrote this post describing some of the effective things she saw in Molly’s lesson: One of the…