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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.
Episodes
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Jeff Utecht, from Shifting Schools, invites Steve to a conversation around the purpose and practice of professional learning communities. As you listen in, make your checklist of the indicators that are the strengths of your PLCs and identify any elements you’d like to change or strengthen. Are your PLC’s building teacher individual and collective efficacy and agency?
Listen to Steve's episode with Jeff here.
Visit the Shifting Schools website.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Empathy has been described as being at the heart of what it means to be human. It is the capacity to imagine what another person is feeling without feeling it yourself as well as the capacity to reflect the feeling of the other person back to him or her. Empathy is an important life skill. This podcast contains some specific ways parents can support youngster’s continuous development of increasing depth of empathy.
5 Tips to Cultivating Empathy
Expressions of Empathy in Medical Consultations
Developing Empathy, an Important Success Skill
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Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Instructional coaches and administrators need to build conversations with teachers around key standards. How is the teacher planning for instruction with an understanding of the depth of the standard? What decisions is the teacher making as she observes students’ engagement in rigorous learning tasks? Dr. Tracy Ocasio highlights the need for curriculum leaders’ interaction with coaches and principals to build support for teachers.
Contact Tracy: drtracyocasio@icloud.com
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Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Being a teacher leader is a demanding and rewarding role for the professional educator. Michael Iannini, the author of Hidden in Plain Sight: Realizing the Full Potential of Middle Leaders, provides guidelines for teachers already in these leadership positions and those looking to progress into teacher leadership roles. Michael provides an interesting perspective of the teacher leader being on the team and also being able to observe the team.
Visit Michael's website here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Jim Knight joins Steve to highlight the seven factors for success in his most recent book on instructional coaching. Jim and Steve’s coaching experiences over the past two plus decades highlight a look at who coaches are, the work coaches do, and where they work. A great resources for coaches, the leaders who support them, and the administrators who partner in building a culture of coaching in schools.
Find Jim's book, "The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success," here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Questions around the role and value of grading have been debated among teachers, administrators, parents and students for many years. In this podcast, Steve explores some of these questions and provides resources for further exploration. How much teacher effort is invested in grading student work, tests, and projects? To what extent does grading positively or negatively impact student learning? What strategies might a teacher put in place to decrease the grading that takes place?
Listen to Steve's podcast with Tom Schimmer here.
Alfie Kohn - "The Case Against Grading"
Jesse Stommel - "Ungrading: An Introduction"
Jal Metha - Possible Future: "Toward a New Grammar of Schooling"
Jennifer Gonzales - "20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half"
Vogel/Zywica - "Want to Go Gradeless? Here's How We Do It"
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
“A culture of collective efficacy does not simply happen; it is built intentionally.” Sarah Sugarman, from Lead by Learning, identifies leadership actions that support the building of teachers’ belief that as a school team they have the power to help their students learn more effectively. This belief is based on their own shared experiences of success.
Read the article, "Three Actions for Building a Culture of Collective Efficacy" here.
Visit the Lead by Learning website here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Parents realize that technology has presented children with tons of opportunities. It has also introduced risks to kids' safety. This podcast explores how parents weigh the risk-taking necessary for their learners to develop digital citizenship.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Instructional coaches should be continually engaged in developing a deep reservoir of knowledge and skills that can impact student and teacher success. The coaching role creates many opportunities for learning from the teachers and leaders with whom you are working. How does a coach best engage with teachers so that the coach’s expertise is a resource that is sought rather than avoided; empowering rather than off-putting?
Read Jim Knight's Article.
Watch the Nick Bosk video.
Listen to the podcast with Joellen Killion on Mental Models.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Heather Kenny, an experienced teacher and teacher educator of literacy, shares purposes and strategies for building student skills in phonemic awareness. She examines the mental process that leads to storing words for immediate and effortless retrieval. Heather explores her experience with students who had word recognition problems that connected to deficits in phonemic awareness skills.
Watch an episode of Sounder & Friends here.
Contact Heather.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!