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For the past 35 years, Steve Barkley has served as an education consultant to school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges and universities nationally and internationally, facilitating the changes necessary for them to reach students and successfully prepare them for the 21st century. A prolific published author, his weekly blog has evolved into a go-to resource for teachers and administrators all over the world. Visit BarkleyPD.com to learn more.
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Leaders Modeling the Use of Feedback
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Zak Cohen, a highly experienced school leader with a strong belief in "leading by example," shares his process for collecting feedback from teachers regarding his leadership competency and supportiveness. He turns that feedback into a hypothesis for improvement and requests feedback on his hypothesis. In this process Zak models the curiosity and vulnerability that teachers need as they look to grow from student feedback.
Read Zak’s article, "Leading By Example as a School Leader" here.
Find Zak on Twitter & LinkedIn.
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Thursday Jul 18, 2024
An Educator’s Hippocratic Oath
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Robert Landau, education futurist and strategist, discusses establishing a hippocratic oath for the educators. Such a pledge would bind us to ethical, equitable, and progressive educational practices that place students' growth and welfare at the core of everything we do. "The traditional Hippocratic Oath is a pledge taken by physicians to uphold specific ethical standards and prioritize the wellbeing of their patients. Similarly, applying an oath to education emphasizes the importance of ethical behavior, responsibility, and a commitment to the wellbeing of students and relationships with all learners built on trust.”
Visit the Two Roads Education website here.
Read Robert's article, "A Hippocratic Oath for the Education Sector" here.
Visit the Hampsted Academy website here.
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Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Classrooms Built on Dignity, Authenticity, and Connection
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Angie Freese, author of Meant for More: Real Talk About Classrooms Built on Dignity, Authenticity, and Connection, explores her belief in educators’ potential. She supports educators to create classrooms where students can be brave, assured, and confident in their learning pathway. In this podcast she highlights authenticity, connection, curiosity, voice, resilience, and grace.
Find Angie's book, Meant for More here.
Email Angie: angie@meantformorementum.com
Connect with Angie on LinkedIn.
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Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Building Teacher Growth Plans That Impact Student Success
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Tammy Jochinke, The Director of Teaching, Learning and Innovation, at the Dubai American Academy, created a process for 240 teachers to design professional growth plans based on a hypothesis from asking the question, "What do my students need me to learn?” Tammy shares the importance of focusing on student success with teacher autonomy and curiosity. Teachers were supported in PLC groups and a colleague who served an impact partner.
Contact Tammy: t.jochinke_daa@gemsedu.com
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Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Students Setting Goals and Developing Plans
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Students’ abilities to set goals, plan for success, and systematically collect feedback are critical to school and life success.
Starting the school year teaching these processes (at all grade levels) can set the stage for increased student success throughout the year and beyond. This podcast shares important elements to build into your plans for effective goal setting and identifies how a middle school team collaborated with a physical education teacher in teaching and coaching goal-setting and planning for success.
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Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Coaching From the School Improvement Plan
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Dr. Karen Johannesen, a highly experienced school leader, writer, and organizational change consultant explores the role of professional development and coaching in school improvement plans that positively impact student success. She believes that when schools support teachers with well-designed and rich professional learning, those teachers create the same type of rigorous and engaging opportunities for students. Her book, "Coaching for Multilingual Student Success" brings the work of school-based and district based coaches to life.
Find Karen's book, "Coaching for Multilingual Student Success" here.
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Friday Jun 21, 2024
Making Magical Ripples Towards a Coaching Culture
Friday Jun 21, 2024
Friday Jun 21, 2024
To what extent should building coaching into the culture of the school be a desired outcome of instructional coaches’ and administrators’ responsibilities?
How can an instructional coach plan for and assess progress even when administrator support or system expectations are not present? Many schools experience ongoing changes in staff and teams, which can seem overwhelming for coaches who feel they lack the time, stability, or support to create real change. In these cases, I suggest that coaches focus on creating a ripple effect by enhancing individual teachers’ coaching experiences and increasing coachability.
Watch Simon Sinek's video on magic ripples here.
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Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Assessment as a Verb for PLCs
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Explore how teachers working in PLCs can use a verb approach to assessment and error analysis to collaboratively focus on shared accountability for ALL students’ success. This process of assessment as a verb, combined with collegial exploration of the information the assessing produced, aligns with my favorite PLC question: "What do the students need us to learn…..?" Teacher learning is key to increased student learning. That collegial learning builds teacher collective efficacy.
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Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Leading Schools That Move Students From Access to Success
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Experienced teacher, head of school and the author of "The Landscape Model of Learning," Jennifer D. Klein, describes how schools build learning communities where students belong and thrive because they are supported for their experiences, gifts, and challenges. How do coaches with school leaders guide teachers to explore understanding learners as fully as we can, supporting learners’ aspirations and goal setting with multiple pathways of learning? How do leaders model for teachers similar learning communities that we desire for students.
Connect with Jennifer to learn more: blogs, videos, books here.
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Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Confidentiality in Coaching
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Confidentiality in a coaching program can be complicated. For many teachers, knowing that coaching conversations are confidential makes it easier for them to explore what really matters. At the same time, school leaders want to build an environment of trust where the issue of confidentiality becomes increasingly less important. Teachers and leaders becoming teams focused on the common goal of students’ success created a sense of MY results are OUR results. How do coaches work with the complexity of confidentiality?
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