Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

The Coach’s Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov ’90

July 1, 2021

Tags Alumni Book

(Woodbridge, United Kingdom: John Catt Educational, 2020)
The mark of a great coach is a constant desire to learn and grow — a hunger to use whatever can make them better. This book is designed to help coaches understand how to develop athletes more successfully by explaining the cognitive science of learning and applying it to sports settings. The author discusses how professional sports franchises, national sports federations, and other coaches he’s worked with have applied and adapted some of those ideas to develop talent. The author is founder of Uncommon Schools, a network of high performing schools in underserved communities.