Really enjoyed this interview w Karen D’Souza on attention, phones, background knowledge, etc

When you need students to listen, go 'low and slow' with your voice; shift your tone; match that to a shift to a more formal physical pose...

More details and how to train with us here:

teachlikeachampion.org/blog/a-quiet-p…

Some math practices are better bets than others. I highly recommend this report by Sarah Powell, 'Maths Practices You Can Count on.'

cis.org.au/wp-content/upl…

The average person:

Hates a good idea if it comes from someone they dislike...

And loves a bad idea if it comes from someone they support.

If you understand this, then you understand why the way we do politics will be the end of us.

Delighted that 'Embedding formative assessment'—which I wrote with Siobhan Leahy—is now available from Solution Tree in both paperback and e-book format: bit.ly/3KeJp8c

Compared with kids from families making more than $100K per year, kids from families making less than $35K spend nearly 2 hours more per day in front of screens.

Looking forward to being back in Lichfield and sharing a 'first look' at some of the core ideas in my forthcoming book on reading.

From the files and still just as relevant. Three key takeaways from Daisy Christodoulou's 'Teachers vs Tech'

teachlikeachampion.org/blog/three-tak…

Doug Lemov so helpful for #auditory_processing difficulties

UK colleagues-

Come train with us! We'll be hosting two separate back-to-back one day workshops in Bristol on June 24 and 25 with our friends from Olympus Academy Trust.

Day one: Building strong classroom cultures.
Day two: Checking for Understanding

Hope to see you there!

Peps, Rachel Ball, Harry Fletcher-Wood, Oliver Lovell, yours truly, and the rest of the brilliant Steplab team have worked extremely hard on this ultra-concise month-long course for T&L leads.

It's available FOR FREE now

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Looks ace!

Still a few more places available at our two days of Teach Like a Champion training with Doug Lemov. The first day is all about Culture and Belonging and the second about Check for Understanding.

These days are not to be missed. Please share and RT.

olympustrust.co.uk/News/Teach-Lik…

Delighted to be joined by Alex Pethick Chris Curtis Sonia and sponsored by Carousel Primary Knowledge Curriculum exemplaryleadership
Not to mention Doug Lemov!
#teachers #schools #reading #transforminglives

buytickets.at/knowledgehub

When you need students to listen, go 'low and slow' with your voice; shift your tone; match that to a shift to a more formal physical pose...

More details and how to train with us here:

teachlikeachampion.org/blog/a-quiet-p…

The parents' and teachers' revolution accelerates in Britain. A consortium of schools speaking in one voice is the most powerful way to launch collective action in an entire city: St. Albans

'Imagine a doctor prescribing a drug to 100 patients & finding 95 of them didn’t take it as prescribed. That is the situation with many online math interventions in K–12 education. They are a solution for the 5%. The other 95% see minimal gains, if any.' educationnext.org/5-percent-prob…

Really looking forward to being back in beautiful Lichfield on June 22. Will be talking Reading and translating the Science of Reading to the classroom + sharing some tidbits from forthcoming book on the topic. Hope to see you all there!

Here is the most erudite review of Anxious Generation, by Michael Toscano, linking the book to Hobbes, Arendt, Lasch, and Putnam, especially on social atomization. We are now 'scrolling alone.'

americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/05/scroll…