Teach Like a Champion 2.0
62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

There's a lot of merit in some of the techniques compiled here, but after spending more than a month slogging through, I'm not sure it outweighs the sexism, classism and racism that underpin Doug Lemov's philosophy. From questionable case studies on the (most often female) erring young teacher, thro......more

I recommend this book for new teachers. We were handed this book last fall and told to read it. After 27 years of teaching and hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours at Professional Development not much in the book was new to me. I found it tedious to read, if only because it felt repetitious to me. Ho......more

Teach Like a Champion 2.0 by Doug Lemov is the best education book I've ever read. Lemov looked for schools that were outliers, achieving amazing results on standardized tests in neighborhoods where other schools were getting very poor results. He then went into those schools and observed the teache......more

I don't know why books like this are written like this... honestly suffer from cognitive overload after a few pages so a book this size takes a really long time to get through. But by god, I read the whole thing!!! and have a few techniques I'm ready to work on this year. Next year hopefully I can s......more