Save time. Dive deep. Ready-to-use teacher training modules on specific Teach Like a Champion techniques.
Designed specifically for busy instructional leaders, our Plug and Plays provide all needed materials for two to three hour teacher training sessions on specific Teach Like a Champion techniques. Each Plug and Play provides leaders with:
✓ Ready-made PowerPoint presentations with embedded videos of the technique
in action
✓ Facilitator notes for what to say and do for each slide
✓ Detailed analysis of all the embedded video clips
✓ Carefully designed practice activities
✓ Feedback “cheat sheets”—prioritized success points for coaching teachers on the
technique
✓ Participant handouts for interactive note taking
✓ Next steps to ensure what’s learned in the session carries over into classrooms
To help you find what best meets your needs, we've organized the Plug and Plays into three categories that align with our workshops – Behavior and Culture, Engaging Academics, and Reading. Within each category, some Plug and Plays require no previous experience with Teach Like a Champion (100 level) and others work best with some leader and school-wide experience with Teach Like a Champion (200 level).
At the bottom of the page you’ll find Bundles – combinations of Plug and Plays that work particularly well together. Bundles also save you money.
Working with our partners at Aptus, we’ve also begun translating our Plug and Plays into Spanish! Interested in buying a version in Spanish? Email tlacinspanish@uncommonschools.org to let us know which ones you want.
Behavior and Culture (11)
Behavior and Culture
Positive Framing
Motivate and inspire students to improve.Learn more
Least Invasive Intervention
Correct nonproductive behavior consistently and with finesse.Learn more
What to Do
Provide students clarity to enable their success.Learn more
Precise Praise
Maximize learning and strengthen student-teacher relationships.Learn more
Joy Factor
Infuse joy to create happy and high achieving classrooms.Learn more
Systems and Routines
Design, install and maintain systems to enable excellence.Learn more
Strong Voice: Going Formal
Communicate confidence, authority, and warmth.Learn more
Developing and Maximizing Radar
Better manage and respond to student behavior.Learn more
Private Individual Correction
Correct privately with skill and finesse. Learn more
Engineer accountability and rigor for students’ written work.Learn more
Turn and Talk
Ensure efficiency, accountability, and deeper student thinking.Learn more
Format Matters
Ensure students speak audibly and in the language of opportunity.Learn more
Circulate
Move strategically around the classroom.Learn more
Reading (5)
Reading
Shared Reading Through Control the Game
Develop skillful readers who love to readLearn more
Embedding Nonfiction
Help students read more nonfiction, better, by deepening their understanding of the fiction and nonfiction they read.Learn more
Close Reading Bursts
Practice the key skills of Close Reading in a focused amount of time.Learn more
Explicit Vocabulary
Help students understand important and useful words deeply.Learn more
Implicit Vocabulary
Teach important and useful words during readingLearn more
Bundles (3)
Bundles
Vocabulary Bundle
Help students achieve both depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge.Learn more
Writing Intensive Bundle
Create an engaged writing culture with rigor and accountability.Learn more
New Teacher Essentials Bundle
Equip new teachers with the fundamentals to start their careers successfully.Learn more
“You are all brilliant and this resource is insane. All of my teachers opted in to this and everyone (including some amazing teachers) reported learning from it and being grateful for it—so thank you!!”
“The Plug and Plays, like all of the TLAC’s trainings, are just really engaging and thoughtful! It gave me the opportunity to think about how to make adjustments for my staff rather than think from the beginning.”
