Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

11.19.24 Student Achievement Through Staff Culture: An Interview with Max Wakeman

Over the past year we’ve been learning from 40 schools in Walsall and Sandwell England. These schools, located outside of Birmingham in areas of unusually high economic deprivation, were chosen to participate in a Priority Education Improvement Areas (PEIA) grant to increase self-regulation and meta-cognition (and therefore academic and social outcomes) in students.    Windsor Academy…


11.13.24 The Science of Reading: It’s About Knowledge not “Transferable Skills”

  Recently, I shared an overview of the topics in the forthcoming book on reading I’m writing with Colleen Driggs and Erica Woolway: seven key principles of reading instruction that should inform what we do in k-12 classrooms. (Note we’ll be discussing these principles at our Nashville workshop Dec. 5  & 6) Today, I’m going to…


11.12.24 On Fluency: The Hidden Barrier to Comprehension

  Yesterday I shared an overview of the topics in the forthcoming book on reading I’m writing with Colleen Driggs and Erica Woolway: seven key principles of reading instruction that should inform what we do in k-12 classrooms. (Note we’ll be discussing these principles at our Nashville workshop Dec. 5  & 6) Today, I’m going to…


11.11.24 What the Science of Reading Says “Post-Phonics” & Meeting Up in Nashville

Bringing the Book Back to Life It’s exciting times at TLAC Towers in terms of reading. Colleen Driggs, Erica Woolway and I are finishing the manuscript of a new book about translating the science of reading into classrooms. We’re really excited about it and will be sharing some of our new insights at our Reading Reconsidered…




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