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Teach Like a Champion 2.0
In 2010, Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion quickly became an international bestseller that would revolutionize how teachers refine their craft. Lemov, who teaches instruction and school leadership at Relay and is Managing Director at Uncommon Schools, painstakingly detailed 49 techniques that put students on the path to college. Two years later, Lemov co-authored Practice Perfect, which described how everyone, and especially educators, can improve their performance through relentless and deliberate practice.
Join Our Engineering Team!
At the Relay Graduate School of Education, technology isn’t just part of the learning experience. It’s at the very heart of it.
With our online course modules, our use of video in real-world classrooms, and our partnership with Coursera, we’re re-imagining how in-person teacher training can blend seamlessly with graduate-level online learning.
Freakonomics Features Relay in Podcast
In a wide-ranging Freakonomics podcast on educational reform, Relay Graduate School of Education co-founder David Levin joined Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner this month to discuss teacher training in the United States.
DOE Recognizes Relay in Federal Plan
Echoing the White House earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education today cited Relay Graduate School of Education among several organizations “demonstrating vital leadership in improving teacher preparation.” The Department recognized Relay as it proposed new rules that would ensure teacher training programs are preparing educators to succeed in the classroom.
The Together Teacher Comes to Coursera
The day-to-day work of being a teacher can be overwhelming. Even experienced teachers sometimes struggle to keep it all together as they juggle time-sensitive tasks and exhausting teaching schedules.
Join Our Team in New Orleans
Since Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans more than a decade ago, the Crescent City has emerged as one of the most innovative public school environments in the United States. Now, we're looking for a new Director of Operations who will lead regional strategy, partnerships and day-to-day regional operations at our New Orleans campus.
'They're Believing the Dream'
Principal Celeste Douglas knows what it takes to make a school great. Time after time, she shared that knowledge with her teachers at M.S. 57 in Brooklyn.
But for a while, she felt as if her guidance didn't connect with her team. While she was painting a grand vision for her teachers, she wasn't helping them see how each brush stroke contributed to the bigger picture.
"I never was specific about what that looked like," Douglas told us recently.
Relay Dean: Images of Great Teaching
Mayme Hostetter, Dean of the Relay Graduate School of Education in New York City, both told and showed the audience what great teaching looks like in the last of three Minnesota Meetings on closing the achievement gap.
Read more from The Minneapolis Foundation.
'A Relay of Great Teachers for All Students'
Dean Mayme Hostetter explains how Relay is pioneering a new approach to what novice teachers learn — and how they learn it.
"Those folks who graduate from Relay will become the relay of great teachers ... for this next generation," Hostetter said.
Listen to the full podcast, below.
Relay: 'The Future of Teacher Training'
"If you want to see the future of teacher training," Jonathan Schorr writes, "you could do worse than to visit Samantha Patterson's kindergarten classroom at North Star Academy Charter School of Newark."
Schorr describes three groups of students in Patterson's classroom. One works independently on computers. A second listens quietly while another teacher reads a story. And a third is practices vowel sounds during a "fast-moving, full-body experience" with "quick, joyful volleys" between the students and their teacher.
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