Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud

Leading Schools That Move Students From Access to Success

Experienced teacher, head of school and the author of "The Landscape Model of Learning," Jennifer D. Klein, describes how schools build learning communities where students belong and thrive because they are supported for their experiences, gifts, and challenges. How do coaches with school leaders guide teachers to explore understanding learners as fully as we can, supporting learners’ aspirations and goal setting with multiple pathways of learning? How do leaders model for teachers similar learning communities that we desire for students.

Connect with Jennifer to learn more: blogs, videos, books here. 

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Confidentiality in Coaching

Confidentiality in a coaching program can be complicated. For many teachers, knowing that coaching conversations are confidential makes it easier for them to explore what really matters. At the same time, school leaders want to build an environment of trust where the issue of confidentiality becomes increasingly less important. Teachers and leaders becoming teams focused on the common goal of students’ success created a sense of MY results are OUR results. How do coaches work with the complexity of confidentiality?

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Students Documenting Learning

Explore how teachers and students can be empowered with the implementation of student documented learning. Jennifer D. Klein, teacher, administrator, and author of "The Landscape Model of Learning: Designing Student-Centered Experiences for Cognitive and Cultural Inclusion," provides examples across grade levels. Her concrete examples illustrate the how as well as the “why” benefits. When students take accountability for documenting their learning, motivation often increases, and important life skills are practiced.

Connect with Jennifer to learn more and find her blogs, videos & books here.  

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Building and Earning Trust as a Coach

As teachers’ relationships with those providing coaching grow from a foundation of trust, teacher vulnerability and risk-taking increase which positively impacts teacher growth. I had an earlier opportunity to explore earning trust and building trust with Jonathan Mueller, an experienced international school leader. He shares that when you can build rapport through unconditional positive regard with somebody, it helps build and continues to earn trust with people. Here are questions teacher have of a coach: Do you appreciate and value me? Can you help me? Can I trust you?  Unconditional positive regard for people as human beings is an excellent way to start. 

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Addressing Educator Burnout: Self Care in Not Enough

In his book, "Triage Your School: A Physician’s Guide to Preventing Burnout," Dr. Chris Jenson provides specific actions school leaders and coaches can take to address the elements of chronic stress for teachers and themselves. Combining his years as a doctor in an emergency room with his years teaching high school science, Dr. Jenson has a unique understanding. Chris states, “Like health care, triage prioritizes educators actions and provides a healthier perspective toward overflowing work demands...one that removes guilt and emotion from incomplete tasks.

Find Chris's Book, "Triage Your School" here. 

Visit Chris's website here.

Find Chris's LinkedIn here.

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Teachers Building Students' SEL Skills

The author of "Teaching With The Heart in Mind,"  Dr. Lorea Martínez, who was a special education teacher and school administrator and worked with children and adults internationally, provides reinforcement for the value of purposefully planning for embedding SEL skills in the classroom, beyond teaching the SEL curriculum. She guides educators to provide the necessary resources and structures to support teachers’ social and emotional capacity; and go beyond the SEL curriculum to include the conditions that make learning and growth possible for all students.

Read "3 Misconceptions about SEL" here. 

Contact Lorea and find her resources here.

Watch Lorea's video on Teacher Stress here.

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Focusing on Accountability

Accountability is a broader concept than responsibility - it’s something you do to yourself, not something that someone does to you.  A focus on responsibility can create attitudes where people justify the ways they think and act to "cover their tails" which pulls in the opposite direction of achieving organizational or team results. With accountability, people not only take accountability for the results they need to achieve individually but for results that they are not 100% in control of. How might your leadership or coaching practices encourage accountability.

Read the Culture Partners post, "Responsibility vs Accountability" here.   

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Coaching Teachers Building Agile Classrooms

Agile education coach and the founder of The Agile Mind, Jessica Cavallaro, describes why students and teachers benefit from working with Agile teaching and learning processes. Jessica shares how she works with teachers and administrators to integrate agile principles and the rewards that everyone can experience.

E-mail Jessica: jessica@the-agile-mind.com

Find Jessica's website and resources here. 

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Addressing Chronic, Overwhelming Work-related Stress...Burnout

Dr. Chris Jenson combines his experiences as an ER physician followed by ten years as a high school science teacher to provide a unique look at work-related stress and burnout. He identifies that while self-care is good, it is insufficient. In his book, "Triage Your School," Chris states that educators gave health providers the problem-solving skills they needed and that now, health care providers can share strategies and solutions from their workflow findings with educators.

Find Chris's Book, "Triage Your School" here. 

Visit Chris's website here.

Find Chris's LinkedIn here.

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Leading With Empathy and Inclusivity

Listen as Dr. Lorea Martinez, Columbia University Teachers College faculty member, founder of HEART in Mind, and author of "Teaching With the Heart in Mind," provides guidelines for supporting teachers in building students’ social emotional learning skills. Identify how developing your own SEL skills supports your leadership and instructional coaching with staff.

Honor Your Emotions

Elect Your Responses

Apply Empathy

Reignite Your Relationships

Transform with Purpose

Read Lorea's article, "Leading From the Heart" here. 

Visit Lorea's website and find her resources here. 

Find Lorea's YouTube Channel and watch her video, "5 Strategies for Educator Stress" here.

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