Teach like a champion 3.0: 63 techniques that put students on the path to college - Lemov Doug 2021

Notes
Procedures and routines

1. 1. Tom Bennett, Running the Room, p. 104.

2. 2. James Clear, Atomic Habits, p. 93.

3. 3. Ibid, p. 117.

4. 4. For U.S. readers: in England calling students “smart” means they look sharp and ready to go.

5. 5. Hammond discusses attention in Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain. Learning, she goes on to say, “requires focused attention. active engagement and conscious processing by the learner” (p. 48).

6. 6. www.researchgate.net/publication/225304965_The_role_of_selective_attention_on_academic_foundations_A_cognitive_neuroscience:perspective.

7. 7. It's not a coincidence that tech engineers use the phrase “eyeballs” to describe the level of attention commanded by their software. Eyeballs are the currency of the gig economy, though of course the purpose of software is the opposite of a teacher's—it seeks to win attention through distraction. Teachers seek to build the ability to sustain and focus concentration. Is it necessary to point out that the winner of this battle—whether young people flick reactively from one push notification to the next or can sustain focus on what's most important—is of profound importance for the cognitive habits of a generation?

8. 8. Also referred to as psychological safety.

9. 9. You can see the story of one such example in Ron Suskind's outstanding book A Hope in the Unseen about Cedric Jennings, who manages to get from his high school in Anacostia to Brown University. The price of his success is massive. Everywhere he goes he is an outsider and more— a constant target of mockery. Humans are deeply social and precious few people will embark on a journey that will result in their being made a pariah.

10. 10. Why do people traffic in this distortion? Perhaps some genuinely believe it because they have not seen classrooms like Christine's. Some perhaps mistake the benign and beneficial authority of a teacher with authoritarianism—the abuse of authority. But for others it is a selfish act. They use words like “carceral” to describe it, to exonerate themselves from responsibility. No one doubts that ours is an education system that systematically constrains the opportunities of poor and minority children. For some, making their own protest is the priority; their goal is to make it clear that they are not responsible. Unfortunately, shouting slogans doesn't solve problems. I prefer to solve the problem and make classrooms better even if it opens me up to simplistic and self-serving calumny.

11. 11. Pentland is quoted in Coyle's The Culture Code.