Resourcefulness, resilience, and collaboration are critical mindsets, and skill sets, for students to develop. For schools to support those outcomes, educators must have the opportunity to develop the same. Mitch Weisburgh, the author of, “Mindshifting: Stop Your Brain from Sabotaging Your Happiness and Success,” explores the importance and possibilities. What’s the role of wellbeing and […]

What would be the benefits of ALL students being taught and coached to develop leadership skills? Maureen Chapman and James Simons, authors of, “Leaders of the Class,” share the needs, benefits, and processes for students to leverage motivation, perseverance, communication, and collaboration. Consider how to build stronger, healthier relationships with students as they discover their […]

“Super-facilitators are people with a talent for bringing individual group members together, combining each one’s unique strengths to promote optimal team performance.  They integrate diverse expertise, promote equitable contributions, and cultivate trust among teammates, generating collective intelligence—a group’s ability to solve problems together.” That’s the description Jamil Zaki provides in a HBR article titled, “Every […]

In part 1 of this blog, examined emotional feedback that supports student’s feelings, confidence, and mindset—how they feel about learning, themselves, and the task. In part 2 I’ll explore behavioral feedback that supports actions and habits, addressing effort, participation, and behaviors related to learning. It can target: Work habits (focus, effort, persistence) Collaboration and communication […]

From her career as a teacher and school leader in public, independent, and international schools and having opened three new schools, Barbara Smith proposes the importance of situating responsibility with students and teachers.  She describes why change is urgent and needs to be transformative. Just as teachers need to be facilitators of student responsibility to […]

In my very first book on coaching, Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching, I wanted to encourage readers to envision coaching beyond an isolated activity that was implemented from time to time and instead as an ongoing feature of the teaching and learning process. Establishing a coaching culture within schools fosters continuous improvement by […]