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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 Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
In this week's episode of the podcast, Steve is joined by principal and coach, Dr. Mark Wilson, to look at where we are today as the school year is underway and how current observations can influence the work of instructional coaches and administrators.
Visit Dr. Wilson's website here.
Contact Dr. Wilson: mark.wilson.ga@gmail.com
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Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Patience is an important parenting, life, and success skill. Examine your continuing development of patience and the importance of and strategies for modelling and teaching patience to your children. More time with “school learning” at home requires increased patience on all our parts. We can all benefit from developing more patience.
4 Steps to More Patience as a Parent
Becoming a More Patient Leader
5 Keys to Leading Through Uncertainty
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Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Coaches and mentors need to introduce beginning teachers to coaching where the teacher is directing the process. This differs from supervisory conferences that they experienced in the past. Listen as Steve models a pre-conference with a beginning teacher.
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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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