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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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Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Creating a conversational tone in coaching conferences helps communicate a peer to peer process that encourages teacher reflection. Open questions are helpful in setting this tone. Steve defines how open questions help identify the teacher’s agenda (thinking) behind a focus point for the observation.
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Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Whether your learners are working virtually, in classrooms, or doing both in a hybrid model, your assistance as a learning coach can build more current academic success now and reinforce important executive functioning skills. These are career and life skills. Listen as Steve provides some specific focus areas and examples of what coaching conversations might sound like.
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
In this week's episode, Steve identifies some specific leadership actions to purposefully implement as we focus on maximizing learning for students under conditions that are new and uncertain.
In Times of Uncertainty, These are the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
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Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
As this school year begins with unknowns and different learning settings, some conversations with your children can better prepare them to be resilient in these situations. Consider the responses you might use as children share some worries or concerns. What strategies can you model to build resilience?
How to Talk to Your Kids About the Upcoming School Year
Helping Your Child Cope With Back to School Anxiety
Steve's Blog Post on Time Management
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Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
In this podcast Steve shares an example of his process for facilitating a leadership team’s identification of hypotheses underlying their team goals. These hypotheses then guide the formation of leadership plans and future decision making. Sharing the hypotheses with staff creates a form of transparency, requiring continuous leadership actions that are aligned.
Read "Why Hypotheses Beat Goals" here.
View the 5 minute chats with students here.
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Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Dr. Amanda Jansen, the author of Rough Draft Math, shares her insights and specific strategies for creating increased student dialogue, thinking, and engagement in math classrooms. What are the benefits of students beginning with the concept of producing a rough draft rather than a finished math answer?
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Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
In this episode of the podcast, Steve relates the need for coaching as the leadership behavior that is required to support educators serving students today.
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Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Michele Baker, an international educator, shares her experiences with Forest School and its benefits for learners and teachers. She shares several ideas for teachers to implement as schools bring students onsite. Physical, social, emotional, and learning gains can be achieved through an engagement with nature.
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Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
In this episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, the author of Rough Draft Math, Dr. Amanda Jansen, provides insights and strategies for coaching teachers in creating classrooms where students know their thinking is valued and appreciate their classmates thinking. How does humanizing the math classroom extend equity?
View Dr. Jansen's website here.
Find Dr. Jansen on Twitter: @MandyMathEd
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Social-emotional skills are key to students current and future academic and life success. They have been identified as college and workplace readiness skills. In this podcast, Steve explores five main areas of skills and strategies you can implement at home. The unknowns of the upcoming school year increases the importance of building social-emotional learning opportunities.
View the self-care checklist here.
View the SEL video for parents here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!