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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 Aug 31, 2023
Being a New Leader
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Dr. Mark Wilson, a past national principal of the year and a current coach to school leaders, shares insights and strategies from his new book, "What They Didn’t Teach You in Fancy Leadership School." Mark addresses team building, communication, and expectations. He highlights the many similarities among the roles of teachers, instructional coaches, and principals. Leaders work to find the right balance between establishing a positive workplace and raising expectations of performance.
Communicate with Mark and find his book and many resources at: https://principal-matters.com/
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Thursday Aug 24, 2023
PLCs as Constellations with Integration
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
How can "constellation thinking" (Matthew Barzun, "The Power of Giving Away Power") increase the learning and creativity of school staff who currently are most likely engaged in pyramid thinking? Building integration into decision making increases vulnerability, trust, and interdependence. What role should instructional coaches have in PLCs?
Watch Senik and Barzun's video here.
Find Simon Sinek's book, "The Power of Giving Away Power" here.
Read the article, "How Diversity Effects Decision Making in Communities" here.
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Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Building a Quality Learning Environment
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
What do students experience in your classroom that they would identify as indications of caring? When would they identify the tasks that they have been given as useful? When and why would they describe hard work as feeling good? Can students recognize that when teaching is hard work it feels good to you? How might discussions about above and beyond generate increase quality work and learning? When are your students wowed?
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Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
The start of the school year is a great time to guide your school team in a reflection around the school’s and district’s mission and vision statement. Commit to the necessary actions that are needed to have the vision become an outcome rather than just an opportunity. Use high expectations to drive educator actions.
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Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Does your staff have a clear understanding of what it means for educators to work as a team? Do your teacher and administrator leaders have a common assessment of the current status of teaming? How are you planning to support the building of vulnerability and trust required for deep team collaboration?
Read the article on the benefits of teaming here.
View the ASU Teachers College resources for teaming here.
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Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Introduce Students to Hypotheses as Part of Goal Setting Practice
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Goal setting can help with classroom management and academic performance. It allows students to become more aware of expectations and concrete methods to achieve an outcome. How might students forming hypotheses increase the success of their goal setting practices? Students sharing their hypotheses and their reflections can lead to learning from each other’s experiences and empowerment from having skills in planning for desired outcomes.
Read Stephanie Toro's article, "Guiding Students to Set Academic Goals" here.
Watch Reggie Rivers Ted Talk, "If you want to achieve your goals, don't focus on them" here.
Read Jeanne Ross' article, "Why Hypotheses Beat Goals" here.
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Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Every Child, Every Day, Every Way
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Dr. Kevin McGowan, the National Superintendent of the year, shares how the Brighton Central School District in New York State made substantial increases in student success by focusing on every student, every day, in every way. He examines the roles of everyone connected to the school questioning their actions around the “every student” focus. Their teamwork has eliminated an achievement gap.
Learn more about Dr. McGowan here.
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Thursday Jul 27, 2023
What Are Teachers Experiencing in PLCs?
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
If you did walkthrough observations of PLC sessions in your school, what would you hear and see? To what extent does the learning environment for teacher during PLCs mirror the learning environment you want for students? Are projects, peers, passion, and play evident?
Listen to the podcast with Nancy Frey and Doug Fisher here.
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Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
How Teachers Can Build Student Led Discussions
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
“Stop talking so much and make time for inquiry.” That’s the first of the six strategies that Alexis Wiggins and Tracy Hill share from their experiences as teachers and instructional coaches both nationally and internationally. They provide the "why" for empowering students to learn content deeper while developing critical success skills for life outside of school and specific strategies such as graphing discussions, rubrics, and peer coaching strategies. Implementing even just one or two of their tips will help you take your students and their thinking to the next level.
Email Tracy: tracyriyadh@gmail.com
Find Tracy on Twitter: twitter.com/tracyhillriyadh
Email Alexis: awiggins@ceelcenter.org
Find Alexis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexiswiggins
Read Alexis & Tracy's article, "6 Strategies to Bolster Student Led Discussions"
Read Alexis's book, "The Best Class You Never Taught"
Find the Spider Web Discussion Core Resources here.
Visit the CEEL Center website and find more resources here.
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Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Instructional Coaching Impact
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Donna Spangler, a past chair of district level coaches, describes the need for coaches to develop strategies to gather input that assesses the effectiveness of their coaching program. The collection of calendar and activity records tend to record activity; not impact. How does coaching enhance teacher professional growth, positive organizational change and most importantly student success?
Find Donna’s recommendations here:
Coaching for Impact Report.
Jim Knight's, "Evaluating Instructional Coaching: People, Programs, and Partnership."
Contact Donna: donnaspangler@comcast.net or donnas@sibme.com
Twitter: @spanglerdonna1
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