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8 Elements of Effective Coaching

A Principal's Reflections

I absolutely love coaching educators in small groups. While giving keynotes and facilitation workshops is something I love, both lack an on-going component, which is one of the most critical aspects of professional learning that leads to scalable results.

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Time is the Best Resource You Have

A Principal's Reflections

I also hear this when I am facilitating targeted workshops. While this is undoubtedly important, it is also vital to gather input on professional learning and resources that are needed— more of this down the road. From here, specific requests can be made for professional learning support on personalized strategies.

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Why These Educators Meet Regularly to Align Instruction with Mind, Brain, and Education Research

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Several teachers began regularly incorporating Jo Boaler’s YouCubed videos into math lessons, teaching students how mistakes change the brain’s wiring and provide opportunities to make new connections, which is a crucial part of the learning process. toward the end of Writer’s Workshop. But we took it one step at a time.

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When Growth is the Only Path Forward

A Principal's Reflections

During the spring of 2022, I met Nicki Slaugh , who serves as principal, and many of her staff at a school system where we were all there to facilitate professional learning on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL). After several workshops, I began coaching cycles in the fall of 2022.

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Wayne Township Schools: Districtwide Professional Learning with edWeb

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The center hosted 10 to 15 high-quality workshops per school year with guest presenters including Kimberly Harrington, the former chief academic officer at the NJDOE, and Steve Hazeman and Dave Meara, lead engineers with Apple. They also built a WTLC Google Site to house all the virtual PD workshop recordings.

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Virtual Learning Done Right

A Principal's Reflections

One important lesson learned was that face-to-face learning does not meet the needs of every child. A foundation can then be established for more personalized approaches such as pedagogically-sound blended learning, self-paced activities, and bitmoji classrooms.

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

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It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district.