Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud

If professional learning for educators is going to generate increased learning success for students, it needs to be an environment, not an event. Dr. Marisa Ramirez Stukey, co-author of, "Professional Learning Redefined: An Evidence-Based Guide," shares key elements of effective professional learning and the necessary commitments needed from administrators, instructional coaches, and teachers.

Visit The Reading League website and get in touch with Dr. Stukey here.

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In many schools, it isn’t common to find teachers exploring possibilities and reflecting on observations with instructional coaches early in the school year. Perhaps there is a view that coaching is problem-solving and the idea that coaching around designing is being missed. Hear an example of what that coaching around a teacher’s early planning might sound like.

Find Dan Steele’s post here.

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Multipliers, as Liz Wiseman identified ("Multipliers - How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter") don't simply recognize talent—they help it grow and spread. Perhaps that's one of the most important roles of an instructional coach. Rather than identifying what teachers are missing, coaches are on the prowl for the capabilities that are already emerging. Noticing them, naming them and creating opportunities for those talents to become even more powerful and, ultimately, benefit colleagues and students beyond a single classroom.

Watch the Positive Psychology in Coaching and Professional Practices video (from Growth Coaching International) here.

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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. How do instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and administrators support those dialogues?

Listen to Naquin’s podcast, "What educators should know when talking with one another" here.

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Michael Hernandez, the author of, "Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects to Ignite Student Curiosity" and "The Uncheatable Assessment Course," shares insights on authentic learning. How can we create learning tasks and assessments that encourage and strengthen students' curiosity - supporting them in becoming engaged and inquisitive scholars and citizens.

Read Michael's article, When Assignments Invite Wonder here.

Find his book, "Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects to Ignite Student Curiosity" here.

Find the Uncheatable Assessments Course here. 

Contact Michael: LinkedIn | Instagram | michael@storytelling-with-purpose.com

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"It’s time to treat curiosity as the superpower it is. We can build students’ ability to use this learning power by giving them the tools, time, and encouragement to wield it effectively."

Dr. Teresa Hill, the superintendent of South Holland Schools in Illinois and the author of, "The Instructional Leaders Guide to Closing Achievement Gaps: Five Keys for Improving Student Outcomes," highlights the “why and how” to empower learning with curiosity. Curiosity is a key to her motto, "All children can learn….. Period."

Read Dr. Hill's ASCD article, "Curiosity Is a Superpower" here.

Find Dr. Hill on LinkedIn here.

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Leadership coach for educators and business leaders, Julie Schniers, shares her insights around coaching others to create opportunities for growth, self- discovery, increased confidence, and a focus to accomplish their goals. She focusses on the importance of communication, connections, and confidence. Coaching curiosity is a key.

Visit Julie's website and connect here.    

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Keith Young, a co-author of, "The Teaching Strategy Handbook: 200+ Solutions for Common Classroom Challenges," explores the strategies from the book’s Chapter 8, "Teacher Burnout and Stress." Keith shares the practices individual teachers can implement as well as the roles that teacher leaders, instructional coaches and administrators can play in support of teachers. The impact that effective PLCs can play is highlighted. Coaches can support teachers in exploring “circles of influence” as a way of focusing energy investment. Having options addressed throughout "The Teaching Strategy Handbook" support teacher wellbeing.

Listen to Keith’s earlier podcast, "Observing and Coaching Classroom Management" here. 

Visit Keith's website and get in touch here. 

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It’s rather clear to most people that to be an effective coach one needs an appropriate mindset for investing in the growth of others and a set of listening and verbal skills for coaching conferencing. Less often considered are the mindsets and skills needed to gain from coaching input. We might label it as one’s coachability. Robyn Vierra, the Teaching and Learning Coordinator at the American School in New Delhi, shares her experiences with being coached. Consider your coachability as you hear Robyn’s story.

Connect with Robyn: rvierra@aes.ac.in

Find the Instructional Coaching Micro-Credential Program here.

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Tania Lattanzio from Innovative Global Education examines the impact of real objects and the real environment on student learning:

When real objects and real environments are the starting point:

• Curiosity leads the learning.
• Questioning feels purposeful.
• Wonder is protected.
• Understanding grows from evidence.

It communicates that learning is not about receiving information, but about making sense of the world. Honoring students as thinkers.

Visit the Innovative Global Education website and connect with Tania here.

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