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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 Apr 08, 2021
Thursday Apr 08, 2021
Steve shares three beliefs that are a foundation for his work guiding school leaders as they focus on promoting continuous teacher growth:
• There is no Mountaintop to Teaching
• Teaching is a Team Sport
• Teaching need to be public with one’s colleagues
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Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
What are the costs and benefits to teachers as they learn within PLC’s? Chad Dumas, the author of Let’s Put the C back in PLCs, answers this question and highlights how teachers can assess the effectiveness of their current PLC process along with strategies to improve its effectiveness.
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Follow Chad on Twitter: @ChadDumas
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Northwest Passage High School’s mission statement states: Rekindling our hope, exploring our world, seeking our path, while building our community. Director and teacher, Peter Wieczorek, describes how the mission is lived by teachers and students.
Visit the Northwest Passage High School website here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Author, Colleen Cruz, presents a clear strategy for dealing with our parenting mistakes and our children’s mistakes. She and Steve explore and laugh about the mistakes we all make while parenting and how we can coach our own continuous development.
Find Colleen's book, "Risk. Fail. Rise" here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Thursday Mar 25, 2021
Thursday Mar 25, 2021
Brittany Cabrera, an instructional coach with a history of joyful teaching, examines her discoveries about joy and academic achievement. She discusses how leaders can carry a joyful mindset into their work with teachers that models the relationship for teachers to build with students.
Read Brittany’s article, "Awakening Joy in Schools" here.
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Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Matt Johnson, a high school Language Arts teacher, who has been teaching remotely for the past year, shares strategies that he has found work for him in engaging students in learning. He includes approaches for providing writing feedback. With 163 students, one minute of feedback per student takes three hours. Find out about “flash feedback”.
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Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
What might a coach consider as she plans to introduce a PLC mindset to a middle school staff? Listen in as this coach shares her questions and wonderings. Steve provides his thoughts, experiences and recommendations as she proceeds with her preparations.
Visit the "hot topics" section of Steve's blog here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Jeff Kubiak, the author of, "One Drop of Kindness" and "It's Me" explores the impact of the quarantine on children and young people and how we as parents and grandparents can best support them. A discussion around building characteristics of kindness and compassion is included.
Find Jeff’s books and resources here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
How do I respond when teachers share that they are overwhelmed by student needs, paperwork, parent demands, and curriculum requirements, as well as their own personal struggles? Steve explores how coaches avoid becoming defensive and encourage staff collaboration.
Read Steve's blog, "Empathy to the Complaining" here.
Ready Steve's blog, "We Are In This Together" and find the Wheatly diagram here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Three teachers and a staff developer from Passaic, NJ who have been teaching virtually for a year examine how they approach building students skills for self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. Clearly, there is no going back to “normal.”
Get in contact with Chad, Director of Staff Development at: cleverett@passaicschools.org
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!