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

Notes
High behavioral expectations

1. 1. This term is discussed in the Preface to this edition. Roughly it describes a caregiver's tendency to give lower-quality treatment to a patient rather than one harder to administer but preferential on the grounds that it is in the patient's interests.

2. 2. I don't mean the young people themselves; I mean the behaviors they may manifest. I don't believe in the fixity of traits and propose instead that the overwhelming majority of students will show grace, curiosity, and virtue if we build classrooms that socialize those things intentionally enough.

3. 3. https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/discipline-reform-through-the-eyes-of-teachers. David Griffith and Adam Tyner surveyed over 1,200 teachers from every type of public school, asking about the behavioral environment as they experienced it. Crucially, they separated the data according to school and teacher characteristics.

4. 4. Fifty-eight percent. More than half also reported that they dealt with verbal disrespect from students daily or weekly.

5. 5. https://www.uncf.org/wp-content/uploads/reports/Advocacy_ASATTBro_4-18F_Digital.pdf

6. 6. https://uncf.org/pages/perceptions-done-to-us-not-with-us-african-american-parent-perceptions-of-k

7. 7. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/379249/Below_20the_20radar_20-_20low-level_20disruption_20in_20the_20country_E2_80_99s_20classrooms.pdf.

8. 8. You can find out more here: https://teachlikeachampion.com/dean-of-students-curriculum/.

9. 9. Except possibly the students who are so distracted by their phones they don't even notice. Please don’t allow phones in your classroom.

10. 10. You could probably build this habit by spacing out five minutes of practice four or five times over a few weeks. See technique 7, Retrieval Practice.

11. 11. Yet another reason why having such means of participation well-oiled routines is so critical.

12. 12. Scholar dollars are an example of a consequence system that is designed to be incremental and therefore allow teachers to negatively reinforce behaviors at low cost. Typically students start the week with 50 scholar dollars. Calling out might result in a two-dollar deduction. A student might earn back a few scholar dollars for a special act of consideration. At the end of the week students might purchase special items (lunch with a teacher for them and three friends, for example) with their scholar dollars if they had a significant number remaining.

13. 13. https://teachlikeachampion.com/dean-of-students-curriculum/.

14. 14. A. Mehrabian and M. Wiener, “Decoding of Inconsistent Communications,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6, no. 1 (1967): 109—114.

15. 15. Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind, p. 65. I can't recommend this book strongly enough!

16. 16. H. Friedman and R. Riggio. “Effect of Individual Differences in Nonverbal Expressiveness on Transmission of Emotions,” Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 6 (1981): 32—58.

17. 17. The phrase “squaring up” also means to initiate confrontation with someone, so while I originally wrote this section on Strong Voice while thinking about squaring up in basketball, the potential for people to see it as confrontational is significant, so I suggest using the phrase “show both shoulders” instead.

18. 18. Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (p. 45).