What do students experience in your classroom that they would identify as indications of caring? When would they identify the tasks that they have been given as useful? When and […]

If you did walkthrough observations of PLC sessions in your school, what would you hear and see? To what extent does the learning environment for teacher during PLCs mirror the […]

Dr. Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, the author of Creating a Positive School Culture: How Principals and Teachers Can Solve Problems Together, joins Steve to examine the importance of the adult environment that […]

In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve is joined by Michelle Chittano to ponder “Designing the Environment.” Listen as Steve ponders the message that […]

While observing in classrooms in several schools these past few weeks, I was re-engaged in the examination of the language teachers and students use when describing the tasks in which […]

I like to use the term orchestrating to describe teachers’ behaviors especially relating to the creation of a learning environment. When you consider the musical conductor of the orchestra, they […]