There’s a difference between assigning complex text and teaching complex text.
Learning is a social endeavor.
Every student deserves a great teacher not by chance, but by design. -Doug Fisher
*Teacher modeling should capture students and let them in to the mind and thinking of the teacher.
Effective school leaders must leverage their big-winner leadership practices to maximize their impact on learning and teaching
Interviewing students: What is the learning target of the day? Are you being successful? How do you know?
When teachers SEE learning through the eyes of the student and when the students SEE themselves as their own teachers.
We need students to arrive at school ready to work, not watch the teacher work.
A key impact on student achievement is whether they make a friend during the first month of school
If kids had unions and voting powers, we wouldn’t be in the situation we are now
Teachers are the only person in the room who is paid to try something different. It’s their professional obligation.
Imagine if doctors were paid for performance. They would refuse to take on difficult cases. Why would paying a teacher for performance work? They have zero control over their clientele.
a culture of collaborative expertise can help every student achieve at least one year’s progress for one year’s input.
"I’m not a fan of high achievement standards. I want high achievement standards. Parents don’t think schools are any good because their scores aren’t high. But teachers in those schools may actually be amazing teachers and obtaining more than a year’s growth in a year." John Hattie
Teaching is to DIE for: Diagnose, Interventions, Evaluate
87% of talking in the classroom is from the teacher.
How many questions do children ask per day that they don’t know the answer to? They risk interrupting you. They risk the reaction of their peers.
The fate of students depends on the mind frames of students.
