The first huge professional development I led for my teachers in the my new gig as Curriculum Leader was starting a book club. My amazing admin invested in a book for every teacher and gave their full support by participating in the book study alongside the teachers. I chose "TEACH LIKE A PIRATE" by Dave Burgess for our first book because of ALL the amazing tweets and chats I had read on Twitter. My new school is full of amazing teachers who want to learn and grow so they were on board to learn how to teach like a pirate.
Walk the Plank was my favorite part of the book study. The small groups chose a time once a week to walk around the school for 5 minutes and discuss the reading for the week. I gave them suggested questions they could use if they ran out of things to talk about. Most groups walked longer than 5 minutes because they were so engrossed in their discussions. It was fun to see them walking and talking about how to teach like a pirate and bouncing ideas off each other.
The website I created had discussion questions for each chapter that teachers answered at their own pace. I encouraged them to go back and read comments made at the end. For my next book study, I want to do something different with this so that it is more of a back and forth conversation rather than just an answer to a question.
Burgess gives these hooks with questions to spark our creativity to "pimp" our lessons. I encouraged my teachers to just start with one, instead of waiting for that infamous flash of inspiration. Some started small with just a message on the board and others jumped in with full costume for an Ellis Island simulation!
We are heading into the second semester with just as much enthusiasm as when we started and much of that is because we are trying to create experiences by teaching like a PIRATE!
Here are all the files!
Google Site
BIG Document of Resources
Walk the Plank Questions
Book Mark
Book Mark Editable PowerPoint
Teach Like A Pirate Hook Cards

What you have done and created here is amazing. I am inspired to do this at my school next year and hope I get the support from my principal. Thank you for posting all of these amazing resources and basically a step-by-step "How to"!
ReplyDeleteAw! Thank you! So glad you found it helpful. Let me know if I can help in any way!
DeleteIs there a way to get a version of the bookmark that can be edited? I like it, but can't change the name of the school.
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Thank you for providing these resources. I had a question...I wanted to use the Hook Cards with a professional development group I am in. I see that some of the cards are blank so I was wondering if they are blank so that we can individually include our own hooks to reference? If so, do you a have a copy of the original document so it can be edited? Again, thank you for your materials. We are reading this as a group and we all love it!
ReplyDeleteHi! So happy you are loving the book! I did have blank ones in case teachers wanted to add their own. You can grab the powerpoint from the link below. Let me know if you need anything else!
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Thank you for sharing all this! I am going to lead a book study on this soon! Do you have an editable version of the bookmarks?
ReplyDeleteHi there! This is a link to the powerpoint version which you can download then edit. Let me know if you need anything else! Hope you love the book!
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Thank you so much for sharing!
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ReplyDeleteI am going to lead a small group book study at school this year using this text. I would love to use some of your materials. I am sure this was a success!
ReplyDeleteIt was really good! Everything is linked at the end of the post. Please let me know if I can help in any way!
DeleteThank you for sharing your ideas and resources! They were so helpful. I have to create a book study for my instructional leadership class for my masters program and was completely lost as to what a book study consists of. Not only do I have a better understanding but am also very interested in sharing these ideas with my administration. Thanks again!
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