Chapter 8: Assessing Lemovian Techniques for Supporting Traditionally Marginalized Students and Suggestions for More Equitable Practices in Schools to Support Black and Latinx Students

This chapter studies teaching techniques popularized in Teach Like a Champion (Lemov, 2010, 2015). This research focuses on former charter school teachers who have applied (or attempted to apply) Lemovian techniques to students with high behavioral interventions in non-charter public schools. (For this research, we identify behavioral interventions through the MTSS framework [Belser et al., 2016].) The purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of Lemovian techniques with all students in multiple learning environments. Because public charter schools intrinsically have more autonomy than non-charter public schools, it may be easier for the former to expel students who do not conform to their behavioral norms. This research seeks to determine if Lemovian techniques can successfully work in non-charter urban (Milner, 2012) public schools, with some scholars such as Gross (2016) documenting how charters have higher rates of expulsion over their non-charter counterparts, as well as best practices to reduce these inequities. In this chapter, “urban” is based on Milner’s definition based on per capita population, not a race.