co-construction - Steve Barkley

Professional Development or Professional Learning

In a previous blog, I explored how educator learning might be approached through a push or pull model. Push training is traditionally management-driven with information delivered from the top down. Its formally scheduled sending people to training events or programs where they passively receive information, often delivered at a pre-determined time.  (I just had a […]

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Coaching as a Thinking Partner

Thinking Partner is a term that I have been using in describing the conversations that I work to have emerge with coachees, especially in post observation conversations. Reading Dr. Kristine Needham’s post, 3 Ways to More “Aha” Moments in Coaching, I found several connections to the concept of thinking partner. Needham describes these coaching conferences […]

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