Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

05.02.13 Sultanna Noormuhammad and How to Build a Teaching Community

This blog post is about a powerful—and simple, and short—email a great leader sent to her staff and how she packed value into a few short sentences…. A few weeks ago I blogged about the challenges of doing TLaC “on an island”—what it was like to trying try to implement a TLaC-ish approach as a lone…


04.16.13 How to Teach Like a Champion “on an Island” (Video)

A teacher, “Jenny,” recently wrote to me with a very real-world question: I am currently reading TLAC with great interest, and I would like to implement these techniques in my classes. The only schools I know of that use these techniques, though, are charter schools where the techniques are embedded into the entire school culture.  Unfortunately, I…