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READING RECONSIDERED CURRICULUM INTRO - Join the TLAC team August 5-9 for this virtual workshop series. Prepare to deliver high quality training around the Reading Reconsidered Curriculum for your summer PD. https://buff.ly/3Y0nFFl

School Culture Leader Cohort Workshop - Join the TLAC team for a remote workshop series in September designed to build the capacity of School Culture Leaders, Deans, Assistant Principals, etc. to lead strong school culture. https://buff.ly/3Wlk3fV

Join us on August 12 and 13 in Milwaukee, WI for our Reading Reconsidered Curriculum Intro workshop. We will provide you with the tools to deliver high quality training with rigorous practice and cognitive science research. https://buff.ly/464KFon

LAST CALL! Join TLAC on July 22-26 for a remote Building Strong Classroom Culture train-the-trainer workshop. Learn strategies to train and empower teachers to make students feel safe, successful, and known. https://buff.ly/460CmKs

Check out Brittany Hargrove's reflections on how TLAC has been supporting Man Up Memphis in their excellent work sustaining and retaining men of color in the teaching profession.

Advocacy Partnerships: Stories of Growth and Impact Part II - Teach Like a Champion Our team’s extensive work in the education sector involves several advocacy partnerships—organizations we work with simply because we believe in their mission and purpose. One of the longest standing partnerships is with Man Up Memphis. In this blog post, Director of Advocacy and Partnerships, ...

Doug Lemov and Hannah Solomon are going to be leading three days of workshops for teachers and school leaders at the Florida Charter Institute in Miami at the end of July. Come join us!

https://www.flcharterinstitute.org/tll/instructional-seminars/

Get Ready for Summer PD! Do novice teachers need intensive development in Strong Voice? Do returners just need a quick refresher? Looking for new videos to keep content fresh? Teach Like a Champion Plug and Plays take care of the planning so leaders can focus on ex*****on and differentiation. https://buff.ly/43inV2U

Get Ready for Summer PD! Let Teach Like a Champion do the session planning so you can focus on ex*****on. Designed specifically for busy instructional leaders, Plug and Plays provide all needed materials for two-to-three hour teacher training sessions on specific Teach Like a Champion techniques. https://buff.ly/43inV2U

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Wrapping it up with some last-minute collaboration!

We are on day two of our School Culture Leader Cohort training. School leaders are working with other school leaders from all over-IN, DC, TX, NC, CO, TN, MA, SC, OH and NY, to shape and build school cultures in which students thrive!

The entire TLAC team is getting together for our retreat today, to study and learn from each other, so we can be the best at what we do for you!

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ENGAGING ACADEMICS - Join the TLAC team for a virtual webinar on techniques from Teach Like A Champion 3.0 to positively engage students in rigorous academic work. Join us June 10-14 to gear up for high-quality summer PD. Register by June 7. https://buff.ly/3IiY8Oo

READING RECONSIDERED CURRICULUM INTRO - Join the TLAC team June 10 - 14 for this virtual workshop series. Prepare to deliver high quality training around the Reading Reconsidered Curriculum for your summer PD. Sign up by June 7. https://buff.ly/3IjoiAI

It's great to see more & more schools shifting to early reading programs with a strong core of systematic synthetic phonics. But even a great phonics program doesn't teach itself.

Here's Dayla Bedford modeling how to make sure kids get the most out of each lesson.…

Foundational Literacy Isn't Easy But Dayla Bedford Shows the Way - Teach Like a Champion     This week Jen Rugani and I have been presenting our first iteration of a new workshop, Foundational Literacy. Why a Foundational Literacy workshop? There’s been a massive and important migration towards structured literacy programs with systematic and synthetic phonics in the primary grades....

UK Workshop Alert! Our friends at Olympus Academy Trust are hosting a TLAC workshop series in Bristol this June 24-25 with Doug Lemov. Set your leaders and teachers up for success with content on Building Strong Classroom Cultures and Check for Understanding.

Teach Like a Champion Conferences - 24 & 25 June 2024 The Olympus Academy Trust is delighted to be hosting Doug Lemo and his team who are running two Teach Like a Champion Train the Trainer events ...

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

More details and how to train with us here:

A Quiet Presence Montage-And How To Find Out More - Teach Like a Champion   “Quiet Presence” is the idea that going lower and slower with your voice is the best way to help students focus optimally, especially in those moments when their attention is just beginning to fray. In some ways that’s the opposite of what you might expect. It’s a common mistake in the ea...

Charlotte Pottinger's Retrieval Practice at Rivers Primary Academy is pure gold- as you can see, her students think so as well!

Video and notes here:

How Charlotte Pottinger Uses Retrieval Practice and Top Flight Means of Participation to Start Class - Teach Like a Champion   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 ot sharing it because it’s so lovely on so many levels. I’m going to call it a Retrieval Practice clip because that’s her main purpose–to start...

Attention school Deans, Assistant Principals, and all school culture leaders: Teach Like a Champion offers training and resources just for you! Join the TLAC team in Albany, June 6-7, for our School Culture Leader Cohort workshop. https://buff.ly/44QedWj

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You'll love seeing how Scott Wells gets his classes at Goldsmith Primary Academy rolling right away with a "Smart Start" as well as how his careful attention to directions helps build positive, attentive culture.

More Ace Footage from Scott Wells' Classroom - Teach Like a Champion Earlier this week I posted a clip of Scott Wells of Goldsmith Primary Academy as he Checked for Understanding with his students. Justifiably, the clip got rave reviews in a recent workshop and online as well.  No surprise that- you can see how sharp it is (and some of the highlights from my perspec...

Two weeks ago Jen Rugani and I had the pleasure of leading a workshop on Checking for Understanding with 80 or so brilliant colleagues in London.

Here are a few of our reflections:

My England Travelogue Part 3: A Really Wonderful CFU Workshop in London - Teach Like a Champion   Last week I shared two blog posts here and here about my week-long trip to England the week prior, in which I visited two really fascinating schools. The week ended with a two-day workshop in London on the topic of Checking for Understanding, co-sponsored by Ark Schools (thank you Victor Voutov, ...

A common pitfall of checking for understanding in reading classes is that the CFU comes after students have talked about the text and heard their fellow students’ insights. Once you’ve sat in on the discussion it’s pretty easy to describe the events in the book in a way that makes it appear that you read it successfully. Believe me I know… I did that more than a few times as a student (!). But whether they understand the book is a different question from whether they are able to generate meaning from it directly from the reading.

How Scott Wells Checks for Understanding as His Students Read (with Video) - Teach Like a Champion   We recently shot an amazing round of video in Scott Wells’ classroom at Goldsmith Primary Academy in Walsall…. We generated clip after clip of masterful teaching several of which we’ve already begun sharing in workshops. In fact I had the pleasure of showing a clip of Scott Checking for Und...

Reflections from working with schools in Memphis to boost math achievement, Part II.

How Madi B. Puts Error Analysis At The Center Of Student Learning - Teach Like a Champion Engineering student success. In this second post on our work on math achievement with schools in the Memphis School Leadership Collaborative (MSLC), Joaquin Hernandez shares some of our learning from one of the champions of the MSLC, 8th grade teacher and instructional coach at Memphis Rise Academy,...

Alongside a group of schools in Memphis, we've been studying what drives math achievement.

Research Into Practice: The Crisis in Math Scores and Our Journey to Understand What Drives Learning - Teach Like a Champion A Math Crisis: In the offing long before it made headlines…   A lot of what we do on our team boils down to wiring ourselves for learning: confronted with a teaching and learning problem, we try to assemble the right people and design the right processes to find solutions. One way we do this is.....

If you were unable to join TLAC in Raleigh earlier this month, then join us remotely! Register now for our Building Strong Classroom Culture workshop offered May 20-24, 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST via Zoom. https://buff.ly/49JR7Sy

LAST CHANCE - Sign up now! Reading Reconsidered Curriculum Introduction for Leaders: remote workshop April 29 - May 3, 2024 from 11:00am to 12:30pm EST. Support teachers in implementing rigorous, research-based Reading Reconsidered Curriculum lessons. https://buff.ly/3ws07x9

LAST CHANCE! Register and join TLAC in Raleigh, NC for our Building Strong Classroom Culture train-the-trainer workshop on May 9-10. Learn and practice techniques to create a rigorous academic environment where students feel safe, successful, and known. https://buff.ly/3UTHHzG