# Anita Archer on what it means to be a relentless teacher.

**Channel:** The UPDC
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY5nYuE6IhY
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/eY5nYuE6IhY

## Chapters

- 0:08 — Defining Relentless Teaching
- 0:28 — Distributed and Cumulative Review
- 1:05 — Persisting Until Students Learn
- 1:22 — Relentless Leadership Beyond Teaching

## Transcript

**[0:08]:** So what would it mean to be relentless as a teacher? Uh it would first of all mean that I have taught something and when I taught it initially I gave you enough practice so that you have gained some accuracy. But sometimes we stop there then we move on teach something else and teach something else and teach something else.

**[0:28]:** But it also should mean that I have taught it and given you practice opportunities and then I immediately have distributed practice. So the next day you practice it maybe mixed with other things that are similar and the next day and the next day and uh we also have cumulative review. So we keep coming back. Sometimes we schedule it like every two weeks on vocabulary. We'll come back and review it. Uh or when we finish a math unit that had distributed practice, we'll go back and review everything that we've covered. But it is uh relentless in that way. It's not just practice initially but distributed and cumulative practice.

**[1:05]:** But it also means that you didn't get it. Uh I am going to uh work with you five minutes late later in the afternoon. Uh that we are going to stay after school for five minutes and work on it. I'm going to send it home with your mother to go over. Uh I am absolutely relentless.

**[1:22]:** And you know relentless uh is not just for teachers to be uh we have some studies that show that the principles administrators who are best in their roles are relentless that they get a vision these are the three things we're working on and it's again and again and again that they're going over