I’m writing about Positive Framing … the final steps of TLAC 2.0 and I want to give some examples. What I’ve come up with is OK but the insights I got when I asked for input from readers on Exit Tickets was so good that I thought I’d enlist your collective advice again. For this exercise, please…
I just realized something small but possibly important about narrating positive behavior in the classroom. Let’s say I’m standing at the front of my classroom as students enter and i want to acknowledge a student, Afonte, who’s met my expectations: come in, got out his stuff, got to work right away on the Do Now–just right. …
In my spare time this year I’ve been working on developing a set of teaching videos of soccer coaches, part of it as a result of my work with the US Soccer Federation, where the coaches I’ve worked with–Dave Chesler and Tony Lepore especially–have blown me away with their attentiveness to and insight about the craft of…
This blog post is about a powerful—and simple, and short—email a great leader sent to her staff and how she packed value into a few short sentences…. A few weeks ago I blogged about the challenges of doing TLaC “on an island”—what it was like to trying try to implement a TLaC-ish approach as a lone…
I’m writing from the C-terminal at O’Hare where I’m sitting out a 5-hour delay getting back home to Albany. Ever get that feeling that for every hour that passes another hour is going to be added to your delay? Anyway, I’m coming home from Colorado where I had the honor of leading a workshop for a…