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Lasting Change at Scale: Lessons From Our Work With Harmony Public Schools
42,000 students and counting… In October, our Consulting & Partnerships team completed a 30-month partnership (March 2021-September 2023) with Texas’ largest charter school network, Harmony...
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Managing (Your Own) Working Memory: How Julia Uses Her “Monitoring Key”
Review/Think/Decide Yesterday I posted about the challenges of managing limits on Working Memory for teachers. We know we’ve got to design our teaching to respond to the challenges the classrooms...
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Attention Contagion: One of the Primary Drivers of Learning is Mutual, Social...
We know that attention is central to every learning task and the quality of attention paid by learners shapes the outcome of learning endeavors. Part of attentiveness is individual. Some people are...
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Look Mom, I’m a Podcaster
That’s not really me; and that’s not really my vibe. “Don’t take this the wrong way,” my 15 year old daughter said, pressing pause, “But I really expected this to be boring. I’m kind of pleasantly...
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The Protocol Paradox: Scaling Effectiveness and Authenticity at Harmony...
This is the second of four posts on the challenges of achieving lasting change in instructional leadership at-scale via professional development. The series is based on our work with Harmony Public...
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Seeing Change: Harmony’s Artifact Study System
Studying implementation with network leaders As we’ve shared in our first and second posts, we were fortunate to partner with Harmony Public Schools as they endeavored to deliver high quality...
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Lesson Delivery Models and Lesson Prep
In our previous three posts, we described lessons learned from our partnership with Harmony Public Schools as they endeavored to strengthen a culture of Lesson Preparation across their 60 campuses....
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Memo Sifuentes’ Halftime Framework for Young Athletes
Memo Sifuentes Memo Sifuentes coaches the u14s (and formerly the u12s) at Austin FC’s Youth Academy. I always find him incredibly thoughtful and intentional about the teaching part of his job. We’ve...
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Matt Lawrey and the Effort to Help Athletes Learn to Watch Better
Teaching David to watch more intentionally A few weeks ago I spent a day at Atlanta United’s Academy with Matt Lawrey, one of my favorite coaches and talent developers. In the afternoon we joined...
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How Charlotte Pottinger Uses Retrieval Practice and Top Flight Means of...
Maths with Ms. Pottinger: Everybody is all-in! In this post, I’m going to share a video of Charlotte Pottinger’s classroom at Rivers Primary Academy in Walsall. I’ve been looking forward to sharing...
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A Quiet Presence Montage–And How To Find Out More
Help students listen by going low and slow with your voice and adopting a formal posture. “Quiet Presence” is the idea that going lower and slower with your voice is the best way to help students...
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Better Questioning for Athletes Starts with Clear Principles of Play
I’m prepping this weekend to narrate the audiobook version of The Coach’s Guide to Teaching… which basically means reading my own book. Obviously that means noticing a lot of small things I’d like...
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Scott Wells Models the Foundations of a Successful Cold Call
In our workshops on Cold Call we often provide a summary of four key things teachers can do while Cold Calling to ensure that the experience is positive, productive and successful. They are: 1)...
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Announcing Amazing New Modules at TLAC Online
TLAC Online is Teach Like a Champion’s platform for teachers to learn and practice our techniques. This summer we nearly doubled the Engaging Academics content! We added five five new modules to...
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