Tenacious Teaching

What are the superpowers you possess?

Why are some school site administrators such a pain?

Should education researchers be required to personally implement their ideas in a K-12 classroom before they are allowed to publish?

Who are the real teaching experts?

How can teachers save our classrooms?

​​​​​​​In Tenacious Teaching, Platinum Apple Award winning teacher, Alex Benn, uses his twenty-years of experience to create a new system for supporting teachers and their students, which includes:

1. A framework for understanding the wide range of classroom behaviors students exhibit, The Eight Attributes of Student Success.
2. A measurement tool to help teachers evaluate their own effectiveness, The Formula for Powerful Teaching.
3. A specific criterion for measuring the progress of disadvantaged students, The Equity Inequality.
4. A methodology for teachers to analyze their own classroom practice, to discuss strategies with their colleagues without judgment, and to help novice teachers who are struggling, The Ten Tiers of Tenacious Teaching.

He also includes Ten of the Superpowers that separate expert teachers from novices, administrators, district officials, education researchers, and everyone else.