Marzano’s "Becoming a Reflective Teacher" builds upon the idea that expert teaching is a product of deliberate practice, similar to how athletes train. The book provides K-12 educators with a structured method to move beyond intuition and base their teaching on proven, research-backed strategies.

Before the rise of data-driven instruction, "reflection" was often vague—a diary entry about how a lesson "felt." Marzano changed that. In Becoming a Reflective Teacher (co-authored with Tina Boogren, Tammy Heflebower, and Jessica Kanold-McIntyre), Marzano argues that