professional dialogue - Steve Barkley
July 9th, 2026

Podcast: Why Teacher Conversations Matter More Than Meetings

Teacher to teacher conversations are powerful when they expose us to perspectives we would not generate on our own. Left to ourselves, we tend to revisit familiar assumptions, interpretations, and solutions. We think within the boundaries of our current mental models. Dialogue creates the opportunity for those mental models to be challenged, refined, or expanded. […]

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