Memo Sifuentes’ Halftime Framework for Young Athletes
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by Doug Lemov
3w ago
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 been talking a bit over the past year about game day coaching: what to do to maximize long-term learning at halftime, in pregame talks, during the match, and afterwards. After one of our discussions, Memo put together a ‘framework’ so there was a clear model for how things were supposed to go at halftime with his team. I’ve outlined it, and a few of Memo’s reflections, below. The Framewor ..read more
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Lesson Delivery Models and Lesson Prep
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by Dan Cotton
3w ago
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. Our team defines Lesson Preparation as consisting of 3 core practices:  Plan the Exemplar Plan for Error Plan the Means of Participation   (For more on these core practices, check out previous TLAC posts on Lesson Prep here and here). We think the three practices can be flexibly and productively applied across all grades and content areas. However, to realize the full potential of Less ..read more
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Seeing Change: Harmony’s Artifact Study System
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by Dan Cotton
3w ago
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 professional development systems focused on Lesson Preparation for 300+ instructional leaders across 60 campuses.  In this post Dan Cotton and Dillon Fisher discuss how they worked with Harmony to develop and refine systems to constantly assess how professional development was shaping outcomes in the classroom: One key to successful organizational change (in organizations both small and large) is t ..read more
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Look Mom, I’m a Podcaster
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by Doug Lemov
2M ago
  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 surprised.” We were in the car. “This” was an interview I’d done with Amy Forrester and Adam Boxer, two teachers from the UK whose help I’d asked comparing the school systems in the US and the UK. They were crushing it. Very cautiously this year I’ve taken up podcasting. It’s let me have conversations with people I find super-interesting about topics I think are especially important. On the ..read more
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Attention Contagion: One of the Primary Drivers of Learning is Mutual, Social & Collective.
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by Doug Lemov
2M ago
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 more attentive than others and have better skills/habits in terms of their attention. But is attention also partly social? Does the environment in which students learn influence their attentiveness? “Attention contagion” is the idea that attention (or inattention) might spread among students in a learning environment. Here’s a fascinating experiment: Video of a lecture playing at the front of t ..read more
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Managing (Your Own) Working Memory: How Julia Uses Her “Monitoring Key”
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by Doug Lemov
3M ago
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 presents for student’s Working Memory, but we’ve also got to be thinking about the under-acknowledge issue of our own working memory overloads. Walking around the classroom trying to observe and remember what 30 different students understood (and didn’t) on two problems with four steps each while also managing behavior and being responsive to psycho-social needs is a big ask of Working Memor ..read more
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Working Memory, Teachers and Tracking Data
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by Doug Lemov
3M ago
Posted a quick note on Twitter the other day about working memory and teachers- how using a clip board to note observations could teachers’ working memory to be more responsive the students as they interacted and how having an exemplar–and ideal student answer you’d like to get to–written out and carried around with you could allow you to not have to try to hold that idea in your working memory as you spoke to students so again you’d have more working memory free to interact, and could refresh your recollection from time to time. I thought I’d post some examples from actual classrooms to show ..read more
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Lasting Change at Scale: Lessons From Our Work With Harmony Public Schools
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by Dan Cotton
3M ago
  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 Public Schools. Our role was to help the network refine its vision for instructional leadership, then build training and systems to study progress across its 55 (now 60) schools.  Dan Cotton and Dillon Fisher, who worked on the project, shared this reflection on some of the challenges of making change at scale. They’ll share further reflections in the coming weeks. Introduction: A Hi ..read more
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Classic Clips: Eric Snider “Establishes Meaning” in The Giver
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by Doug Lemov
3M ago
“Word-Level Questions” such as those assessing understanding for pronoun reference are powerful   We’re getting ready to lead a two day workshop on Reading Reconsidered in Raleigh, NC on January 18 and 19 (details here).  As part of the preparation we were going over some older reading footage and we found this gem from Eric Snider. It’s a short clip and if you watched it you could be forgiven for not at first noticing all of the things that are so outstanding about it. The first thing we love about the clip is how intentional Eric is about establishing meaning before he analyzes ..read more
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Teaching Advice From Taylor (Swift)
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by Doug Lemov
3M ago
That’s exactly what we do too, Taylor!!!   A colleague who attended our recent workshop for medical educators, Josie Amory of Seattle, WA, passed along this Instagram post from Taylor Swift about her concert preparation routine: “This insta post reminded me of the discussion we had about working memory and habits good teachers use to reduce their dependence on working memory, which in turn allows for more present moment situational awareness,” Josie wrote. Can I just say that I could not agree more with Josie’s take on the “Wisdom of Taylor.” One of the most important things teachers ..read more
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