Get it do it gap. Understanding something and being able to do it are very different.

Teaching is a performance activity. You don’t have time to stop and look things up. You need to be able react and improvise live. Most people don’t practice teaching but they should.

Cold calling: telling an audience that anyone is liable to be called on. Increases engagement.

It’s not whether you taught it it’s whether they learned it.

Normalize errors and make it safe to be wrong. You need to foster a culture of openness in the classroom.

Call and response: ask a series of questions that the whole class answers unison.

The first obligation of an organization is to make its people better.

When hiring a teacher, it’s important to see how open they are to feedback and how good they are at learning / changing based on feedback.

There was an analysis of Latin American counties relating test scores to GDP growth and test scores explained 80% of it. Teachers are really damn important.

Buy in is an outcome not a precondition.