Just as students benefit from developing a positive, growth-oriented approach to failure, teachers thrive when they are supported in the same way. Instructional coaches and administrators can play a critical role in fostering this mindset. Teachers need opportunities to embrace challenges, experiment with new ideas, and persist through setbacks, in a safe environment. Too often, […]

Liz Keable, a specialist in guiding increased student leaning through metacognition practices, provides insights and suggestions for supporting and coaching teachers. “If we want to have a real impact on the next generation, there is one thing vastly more important than our teaching, and that is their learning.” You’ll find “look fors” and questions to […]

Heather Lyon, the author of, “Engagement is Not a Unicorn, It’s a Narwahl” and “The Big Book of Engagement Strategies,” shares her insights on student engagement and teacher strategies from her new book, “50 Ways to Engage Students with Google Apps.” Teachers’ knowledge and understanding of pedagogical choices is key to tech tools tapping student […]

“What to do when the magic is missing?” is the question that Foley Burckardt, a learning coordinator at the University of Chicago, explores in this podcast. How can coaches assist teachers who find themselves burned out, frustrated, fatigued, or rudderless do a reset? Read Foley’s article, “Teaching and Learning: What to Do When the Magic […]

Authors, Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran share insights from their work with creating open systems for change that can have implications for being open in our classroom environments. They explore what it would mean for teachers to be democracy builders?   John Dewey – “What direction shall we give to the work of school so […]

The complexity of teaching and learning provides for great educator learning and satisfaction. Coaches assist educators in the conversations, reflection and conscious practice that are key to continuous teacher learning leading to increased student progress. Coach and teacher need to let go of having the right answer and focus on creating and discovering how to […]