This is a really interesting story about how teaching can be improved. The methods created by Lemov, remind of the same techniques I learned about at Fred Jones Workshop in Santa Cruz. I am so glad I took that workshop it helped me so much...I still have a lot to improve but I had not idea what class management was.

Hopefully, we also buy Lemov's book...

clipped from www.nytimes.com Building a Better Teacher But when it came to actual teaching, the daily task of getting students to learn, the school floundered. Students disobeyed teachers’ instructions, and class discussions veered away from the lesson plans. In one class Lemov observed, the teacher spent several minutes debating a student about why he didn’t have a pencil. Another divided her students into two groups to practice multiplication together, only to watch them turn to the more interesting work of chatting. A single quiet student soldiered on with the problems. As Lemov drove from Syracuse back to his home in Albany, he tried to figure out what he could do to help. He knew how to advise schools to adopt a better curriculum or raise standards or develop better communication channels between teachers and principals. But he realized that he had no clue how to advise schools about their main event: how to teach.