Our weekly team meeting gives us the chance to do what we love most: study great teaching. This week, we had the privilege to study Dayla Bedford of Emma Donnan Elementary School in Indianapolis, IN. Dayla joyfully and skillfully executing a phonics lesson with her first-graders. [We’ll share a longer video of Dayla’s impressive phonics…
Darryl Williams is TLAC’s Senior Fellow for School Leadership. He helps organizations use our tools more effectively within their schools to help teachers–and therefore students–succeed. His eye for instruction is honed through years spent as a teacher, principal and senior district leader. He loved a clip we watched recently and thought it would be especially…
This summer, with help from Virginia Youth Soccer Association Coaching Education Director Paul Shaw, I’ve been studying some of Virginia’s top soccer coaches and videotaping their sessions. This week I’ll start sharing some reflections from Kelvin Jones’ session. Kelvin is a coach with Virginia’s ODP program and is Director of Coaching at Virginia Legacy Soccer Club…
The first moment of your class is in many ways the most important in setting expectations for what will happen there for the next hour. That’s why I love this clip of Alonte Johnson starting his 7th grade English class at King’s Collegiate in Brooklyn. He’s clear and direct. His routines are simple and efficient. He…
