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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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Advocacy Partnerships: Stories of Growth and Impact Part II
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...
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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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Using Writing in The (Reading) Classroom–The Amazing Success of First Year...
Great task; great directions; great results Last week I had the pleasure of joining Kristen McQuillan, Natalie Wexler and Julia Cooper on a webinar sponsored by the Knowledge Matters campaign....
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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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Introducing Our School Culture Curriculum for High School Students
A sample page from the curriculum… Are you looking for a curriculum to help students engage more positively in school and to support students’ character development? Look no further! We are thrilled...
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Step One for a Productive and Positive Classroom: Strong Procedures and...
The beginning of the year is the time to be installing strong procedures and routines in the classroom. It’s one of the most important things you can do to set yourself up for a productive and...
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Strong Procedures and Routines for Participation: The Critical Role of...
Probably the smartest investment you could make… Recently, I wrote about Means of Participation– how at the beginning of the year it’s critically important to design and optimize and make a habit...
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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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Seven Details from Matthew Tipton’s use of Everybody Writes
Matthew and his class discussing “The Magician’s Nephew” I’ve been posting a lot recently (here and here for example) about the power of writing to boost Ratio in the classroom- how writing among...
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