Teacher Professional Development Resources
Continuous teacher growth is the driving force behind continuous student achievement. I posted a blog titled, There Is No Mountaintop, to illustrate that every year a teacher’s learning from the previous year can advance his/her skills and positively impact student learning. In addition, this new learning opens the door to new questions and ideas. If you place everything you know about teaching and learning inside of a balloon, the outside of the balloon represents areas for future learning.
Videos
Blogs and Podcasts:
The Jigsaw Strategy and Cognitive Dissonance
Searching for a podcast to listen to on my daily walk, I came across the Stanford Psychology Podcast, Elliot Aronson: Cognitive Dissonance, Cooperation, and Juicy Stories About the History of […]
Weighing Consistency and Personalization
“Why is the classroom still largely ‘constructed’ by the teacher?” That is the question posed early in the book, The Co-constructed Classroom by Ann Lautrette. I read The Co-constructed Classroom […]
Podcast: Expectations as a Foundation for Coaching Part 1
This podcast is pulled from a presentation/conversation I did with Nicole Turner as part of her Coaching Summit 2023. With a special consideration on those who are newer to their […]
Introducing Peer Coaching
I had a request to assist a team of teacher leaders who had accepted the task of providing an introduction of peer coaching to teachers who are new to their […]
Decreasing Problem Saturated Conversations
Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin writing in an ASCD article connected me to the term “problem saturated conversations.” She states that what teachers talk about during their lunch break can have dramatic implications; […]
Podcast: How Teachers Can Build Student Led Discussions
“Stop talking so much and make time for inquiry.” That’s the first of the six strategies that Alexis Wiggins and Tracy Hill share from their experiences as teachers and instructional […]
Blog Archive:
- Educator Learning for Student Learning: Coaching Impact
- Leadership Teams
- Feedback for Students and Teachers
- Focusing on Learning
- Scaling Teachers Up or Cutting Them Loose?
- PLCs and Coaching for Teacher and Student Learning
- Nurturing Teachers’ Curiosity
- Value from Coaching and Collaboration
- Teachers Using What They Know To Increase Student Learning
- Moving Learning Walk Insights to Teacher Change
- Teachers’ Peer Observations: Reflecting and Learning
- International School Leadership Opportunity
- Working & Learning Online With Steve Barkley
- Case Study: The Austin Independent School District
- Motivation: Feeling Great About the Work You Are Doing
- Exploring Feedback
- Empathy and Leadership
- Teachers’ Soft Skills: Critical to School Success
- Looking at Climate and School Culture from Another Lens
- Administrators’ and Instructional Coaches’ Involvement in PLCs
- Leadership Actions to Lead Teams
- Identifying Evidence for Progress on Process
- Accountability
- Planning Questions for Critical Thinking and Learning
- Teachers Taking the Lead
- Teacher Pause and Student Thinking
- Learning in Roleplay, Simulations, and Live-Events
- Teachers Observing Teaching
- Finding Understanding with Same/Different Exploration
- Increasing Student Participation in Learning Conversations
- Reflection and Insights
- Teacher Talk and Student Talk
- Five Core Communication Skills for Student to Student and Teacher to Teacher Dialogue
- Planning Instruction from Student Outcome Goals
- School Leaders: Getting Teacher Input or Empowering Teachers
- Belonging and Relationships
- Facilitating Discussions In Classrooms Using the Fishbowl Strategy
- Motivate Your Team with Guest Speaker Jim Malanowski
- Comfortable with Discomfort
- Teaching and Leading With Stories
- Managing vs. Leading
- Team or Franchise?
- Teaching & Learning Perseverance
- My Responses to Coaching Questions
- The Coach Approach to School Leadership
- Play, Do, Learn
- Bloom’s Taxonomy and Questions for Life
- Exploring and Coaching Teacher Credibility
- Thoughts on Mentoring and Supporting Beginning Teachers, Part 1
- Thoughts on Mentoring and Supporting Beginning Teachers, Part 2
- Responding to a Teacher’s Classroom Problem
- Engaging Students for Maximum Learning
- Stretching to Learn
- The Impact of Knowing and Being Known
- Guiding Learning From Complex to Patterns
- Exploring Classroom Management
- Trust and Vulnerability
- Exploring Multi-Grade and Multi-Level Learning
- What do our students need us to learn?
- Effective Professional Development
- Recognizing the Value of Success Skills
- Teacher Professional Goals
- Modernizing Assessment
- Passion in Teaching and Learning
- The Beginning of the School Year Messages
- Building Trust to Support Teacher Growth
- When Do Teachers Cooperate and When Do They Collaborate
- Success Skills for New Teachers
- Is the Leadership Team a Team?
- Grades and Reliability
- Conversations Focused on Student Learning
- Watching Play, Watching Learning
- Observing Student Production Behaviors
- Creating Opportunities to Develop Collective Teacher Efficacy
- Lifeguard or Swim Coach? The Role of Struggle
- Continuing ISG Jubail’s Coaching Conversation with Emma Ahmed
- Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Supporting Teachers in Successful Parent Conferences
- Designing and Facilitating Discussions for Inquiry and Learning
- Caring, Vulnerability and Trust
- Supporting Parents Supporting Learners
- Supporting Educator Learning to Build Student Learning
- Coaching Co-Teaching
- Professional Growth Plans
- The Letting Go Paradox in Leading and Teaching
- Developing and Coaching Teachers’ Professional Growth Plans
- Where to Begin with a Beginning Teacher
- An Environment for Growth: The Role of Vulnerability and Discomfort
- Moving from Fear to Growth
- Teacher Resilience and Teacher Collaboration