Conductor; Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
I will say it’s very in a way looks very physical. You know, it’s like a dance.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement (achievement.org)
Teaching & development
Teachers who changed how people learn
Concrete teaching judgment: how understanding, trust, feedback, expectations, and lasting learning actually work.
12 questions, 216 answers on the record, from 165 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
Worth reading
What are you best at that nobody watching would notice?
Australian sprinter, 1990–2003
I wanted to be an Olympic champion and I didn't care about the goings-on around me. In my heart and with all of my soul I was ready, willing and I was very able.
Recorded · National Museum of Australia · 2021
British track cyclist, 1994–2013
I just like to get to the start line knowing there was nothing else I could have done, that there wasn't a single session I didn't give 100 per cent.
Recorded · Cyclingnews · 2008
Every question in this questionnaire
- How can you tell when a student understands something rather than merely performing the right steps? —
- What makes you want to keep learning? 9
- Which misconception about learning did experience force you to abandon? —
- What are you best at that nobody watching would notice? 26
- How do you earn the trust of a student who expects school or teachers to fail them? —
- How do you respond to unequal needs without quietly lowering expectations for some students? —
- How do you give corrective feedback that changes the work without making the student feel diminished? —
- What bad recommendations do people in your field repeat too often? 32
- How has a setback or failure set you up for later success? 69
- What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23
- What do you hope students carry from your classroom that will never appear on a test? —
- Which teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them? 57
Who has answered
Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
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AS
2 answers
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AWAugust Wilson
Playwright; two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama
2 answers United States 1945–2005
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Bill Clinton42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
3 answers United States b. 1946
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Christiane Nüsslein-VolhardDevelopmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
3 answers Germany b. 1942
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Coretta Scott KingCivil rights leader; founder of the King Center
2 answers United States 1927–2006
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Daniel EkCo-founder and former chief executive of Spotify
2 answers Sweden b. 1983
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David VélezCo-founder and chief executive of Nubank
3 answers Colombia
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Desmond TutuAnglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
2 answers South Africa 1931–2021
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Drew HoustonCo-founder and chief executive of Dropbox
2 answers United States b. 1983
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Edmund HillaryMountaineer and explorer; first ascent of Everest, 1953
3 answers New Zealand 1919–2008
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Elinor OstromPolitical economist; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 2009
2 answers United States 1933–2012
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FCFrancis Ford Coppola
Film director, producer and screenwriter; director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now
2 answers United States b. 1939
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