Andy Harrison

📘 My new Teaching for Attention Playbook is a 70+ page, evidence-informed guide that breaks down the science of attention and provides 6 practical strategies to support teachers. It covers how to: 🎯 Secure Attention: Create the conditions for students to focus 🎯 Direct Attention: Guide students towards important information 🎯 Orchestrate Attention: Manage where attention goes as learning unfolds 👉 Want a free copy? REPOST and comment ATTENTION below, and I’ll DM you the link. ⏰ Available free until Wednesday 30 September at 11:59pm AWST

👇 The Do Now technique, popularised by @Doug_Lemov in Teach Like a Champion, has shaped my thinking about entry routines for years. The central idea is simple: students enter, find a short task waiting for them, and begin without directions from the teacher. But simple doesn’t mean easy to get right… Too long, and it eats into the lesson. Too easy, and it demands little thinking. If answers are visible while students are trying to recall them, that falls into copying, not retrieval. I built a checklist around four principles for designing and delivering an effective Do Now: Principle 1 - Embed it as a Routine: Same place, same format, same time limit. Students know exactly what to do and can begin independently. Principle 2 - Promote Retrieval Practice: When reviewing prior learning, students retrieve from memory. No notes. No answers visible. Questions require genuine effortful recall. Principle 3 - Use it to Check for Understanding: Circulate and actively observe while students work. Use what you see to identify misconceptions and decide what needs attention during the review. Principle 4 - Prime for New Learning: A Do Now doesn’t always have to retrieve previous content. It can preview today’s lesson or activate and build the background knowledge students will need next. That independence matters… It turns the start of the lesson into a predictable classroom routine: students are thinking from the moment they arrive, while the teacher can circulate, connect with students and respond. Read more and grab the free checklist here: newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…

Teachers enjoyed the PD but did practice actually change? The Impact Ladder plans PD in reverse… from student outcomes, then goes back into classrooms weeks later to check. Free PD Evaluation Tool 👇 newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…

Drawing on the work of Dr Bill Rogers, this post explores the idea of behavioural leadership — guiding students towards better behaviour rather than relying on confrontation, punishment or reactive responses. It breaks down five practical strategies teachers can use in the moment... Oh and there’s also a free Classroom Management One-Page Guide included based on the work of @coachdowley newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…

Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction… Read all 10 editions, download the free one-page guide and checkout the playbook PDF here…. newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…