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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
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Identify students' responses to learning tasks along an engagement continuum from non-compliant to compliant to involved to absorbed. Gain some specific strategies for supporting an increase in student engagement.
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Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Instructional coaches, along with school administrative and teacher leaders, can positively impact student success by building a culture of coaching among school staff. Listen in as Steve presents a message to teachers on why they would find value in entering into coaching and collegial conversations with instructional coaches and with each other.
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Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Kimball Lewis, CEO of empoweringparents.com, shares insights on parents working with student motivation for learning at home. He identifies the need to create a structure that many students find in school but don’t associate with being at home. Kimball also addresses dealing with kids’ opposition to required “work.”
Visit Empowering Parents here.
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Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Like our students, teachers need “good informative feedback” to support our continuous growth. Sherry St. Clair, experienced teacher, instructional coach, school administrator and author provided insights and strategies. Find out what she identifies and the most important source.
E-mail: Sherry@reflecttolearn.com
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
How are earning trust and gaining trust similar and different? Jonathan Mueller, an instructional coach at the Western Academy of Beijing, shares thoughts and strategies on ways that coaches can both gain and earn trust. The need for coaches to be consistent and flexible is also explored.
Visit Jonathan’s website here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Parent, educator, and author Heather Lyon shares her learning and personal experiences in generating needed compliant responses at home and encouraging deeper engagement in learning at home and beyond. You are certain to connect with her parent/child scenarios.
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Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
In the current environment, coaching should assist educators in identifying “what is most important” and “what can be let go”. The value of letting some things go is to invest in making the most important things happen. Celebrating that success is motivating and builds hope.
View the EducationWeek survey here.
CR Synder on hope.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Listen as Steve explains how the process of planning backwards leads to student learning production behaviors and desired student outcomes.
View the accompanying video for this episode here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Instructional coaches and school leaders need to model and support environments were educators are vulnerable and comfortable with feelings of discomfort. Living in the “Learning Dip” is an important stage in learning. True for our students and ourselves.
Read David Peck's "Power in Vulnerability".
Read Vicki Dearling's, "Three Good Reasons Why It’s OK to Let Your Vulnerability Show".
Watch Ken Robinson's TED talk on "how to escape education's death valley" video.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Our mindset often initiates many of our unconscious behaviors. This podcast explores a mindset continuum that moves from fear to learning to growth. Reflect on where your mindset falls at different times and select some conscious behaviors you my want to take to stretch into learning and growth. How can some conscious behaviors develop family members’ mindsets?
View the Fear-Learning-Growth continuum here.
Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!