Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud

Leadership Coaching

Dr. Andrew Crouse, the superintendent of the American Cooperative School in La Paz Bolivia, shares insights around school leaders being coached, coaching administrator and teacher leaders, and building coachability. Consider the characteristics of coachability and how you promote them.

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Creating Cross-Grade Partnering Opportunities for Students

Students can gain many benefits from cross-grade mentoring and peer-pal opportunities in academic, social emotional, and life skills success. Research shows such programs can generate a school environment that is more inclusive and supportive. Hear the results reported by educators at both the elementary and secondary levels.

Watch the video, "How to Elevate Your Buddy Program" here.
Read the article, "This High School Matches Freshmen With Senior Mentors. They All Get Course Credit" here.

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Opportunities for Cognitive Dissonance to Challenge Beliefs & Values

lliot Aronson, an American psychologist known for his pioneering work in the fields of social psychology and cognitive dissonance, explored the ways that people's attitudes and beliefs can be influenced by peer pressure, group dynamics, and cognitive inconsistencies. His work led to the design of the jigsaw strategy used in classrooms. Consider how elements of his work apply to instructional coaching.

Interview with Aronson on Stanford Psychology Podcast here.

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Why a Focus on Learning

Judy Thompson shares her views on how our traditional, "industrial" schooling model needs to change. Her focus on coaching and facilitating learning emerged as she recognized how teaching English as reading and writing wasn’t leading to success with the language. Consider how her thinking supports your desire for maximizing student learning. 

• Teachers talk-----Facilitators listen
  
• Teachers see what is wrong-----Facilitators validate
  
• Teachers are authoritarians-----Facilitators are leaders
  

Visit Judy's website here.  
Watch Judy’s Ted X video here. 

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An Open System Approach to Teaching

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 that it the richness and fullness of the democratic way of life in all its scope may be promoted?”

Find out more at: https://www.theopensystem.org/

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Valuing and Enjoying Coaching Within the Complexity of Teaching

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 impact maximum success.

Find Jim Knight’s podcasts with John Hattie (August 22, 2023) and Joellen Killion (July 18, 2023) here. 

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An Open System: Co-Creating Our Schools

Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, the authors of "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy," share their insights for building future education plans alongside students, families, and communities instead of using our historical, closed, top-down approaches. Consider how your leadership lifts up others who will work to move co-created initiatives forward in their own ways.

Find out more at: https://www.theopensystem.org/

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Building and Supporting Students’ Creativity

Author, Dr. Joanne Foster shares insights on creativity from her extensive experience as a teacher, parent, and teacher educator at the University of Toronto, teaching Educational Psychology and Gifted Education. She offers strategies from her most recent book, "Ignite Your Ideas: Creativity for Kids" and explores developing teachers’ creativity to impact student creativity.

Listen to the parent podcast with Joanne here. 

Find information on "Ignite Your Ideas: Creativity for Kids" and Dr. Foster’s other books here.

Find "ABCs of Raising Smarter Kids" here. 

Find Being Smart about Gifted Learning (3rd Edition) here.

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Multicultural, Student-Centered, Culture of Love

Are you students partners in your school’s decisions? Does your multi-cultural curriculum and pedagogy benefit all students? Does your school have a cultural of love, patience, trust, caring, forgiveness, commitment? Dr. Luvelle Brown, Superintendent of Ithaca Schools in New York State, and the author of "Culture of Love: Cultivating a Positive and Transformational Organizational Culture" explores these topics and more.

Find Dr. Brown's book, "Culture of Love" here. 

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What Do We Know About Recess?

The author of "Rethinking Recess: Creating Safe and Inclusive Playtime For All Children in School," Dr. Rebecca London, shares her research and guidelines for recess from Playworks. Find "lookfors" and important mindsets for educators to explore about the key elements and benefits of recess. Should we be coaching teachers and assistants for guiding students to gain the most from recess time?

Visit the Playworks website here. 
Connect with Rebecca and find her book here. 

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