How do coaches assist teachers in reframing stress from something to be managed to a catalyst for growth and improvement? How can understanding the roles of commitment, control, and challenge build teachers’ hardiness? Highly experienced coaches, Lana Cecil and Angela Buckingham, share the application of Stein’s and Bartone’s work in Making Stress Work for You […]

When teachers are told to implement a new program because it’s “research based,” what are they thinking and feeling? That’s the question Sarah Morris, a Doctoral Academy Fellow at the University of Arkansas explored. She shares her summary from 400 responding teachers. Instructional leaders should consider how they engage teachers with research. Read Sarah’s article, […]

I mentioned in the last blog that I was reading Bryan Goodwin’s Simply Better: Doing What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success. I was introduced (p.121) to a term coined by Hoy, Tarter, and Hoy (2006)…academic optimism. The power of optimism has been an interest of mine for several years. It’s a […]