In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve is joined by professor, Andrew Hill from Montana State University to discuss the benefits of repeat student-teacher matches. Get in touch with Andrew: andrew.hill6@montana.edu Read Andrew Hill & David Jones’ article here. Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on […]

In my experiences I have found that many of the groups of teachers who are called a team at school are actual functioning more as franchise owners attending a franchise meeting. (Here’s a business definition for franchise.) “Arrangement where one party (the franchiser) grants another party (the franchisee) the right to use its trademark or […]

In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve examines how learning can occur from both failure and success. Read “Systematic Reflection: Implications for Learning From Failures and Successes” here. Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes. Thanks for listening! […]

This is the first of three blogs illustrating how coaches can apply the backwards process of connecting the desired student learning production behaviors to the teacher behaviors/practices/strategies that can generate those behaviors. This blog focuses on the coach working with an individual teacher. The following two will consider working with PLCs or teams and working […]

In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve is joined by author, Tom Hoerr as well as assistant principal, Jessica Nichols with her team at Simle Middle School to discuss building student success skills. Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find […]

Planning backwards from student desired outcomes eventually leads to identifying teachers’ needs for understanding or learning. I suggest that as teachers study student work and assessments in a PLC, the question, “What do students need us to learn?” emerges. I believe that as teachers we are doing everything we can to have students reach mastery […]