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Coaching Minute: Building a Coaching Rapport
Coaches Deb Gaby, Ruth Ayres, and second-grade teacher Cathy Laker chat about building a rapport between coaches and teachers.
Post It Prove It
Leslie Lloyd explains how she uses Post It Prove It with her third-grade students as a quick check-in and assessment.
Monitoring for Meaning: Fourth-Grade Small Group
In this demonstration small group, Tammy Mulligan teaches fourth graders strategies to monitor for meaning. The demonstration lesson includes a planning session with the teacher and a debrief.
Moving Away from Bed to Bed: Conferring with Ty
Ruth Ayres confers with fourth grader Ty about his personal narrative, and works to move him away from a "bed-to-bed" approach in his writing.
Coaching Minute: Explore
Heather Rader explains the value of surfing the web with a professional development purpose in this quick video tip. A transcript is available below the player. When...
First-Grade Math Lesson: Introduction and Partner Work
Danielle French leads her first graders in a math lesson where they also build vocabulary and language skills.
First-Grade Math Lesson: Practice and Discussion
Students practice creating equations and using new vocabulary in this second installment of a math lesson in Danielle French's first-grade classroom.
Pause Paraphrase Probe: Developing Coaching Skills
Amanda Adrian and Heather Sisson lead their coaching colleagues in an activity to practice paraphrasing skills in this excerpt from a coaching support group.
English Language Learners First-Grade Guided Group
Stella Villalba leads a guided reading group for first-grade English language learners, beginning by building vocabulary.
Monitoring Meaning in First Grade
In this demonstration small group, Clare Landrigan helps first graders Tristan and Abby monitor meaning. The video includes excerpts from the planning and debriefing sessions with the children's teacher.
Science Observations in Kindergarten
Mandy Robek introduces a science observation activity to her kindergartners.
Anchor Lesson: Poem in Two Voices
Leslie Lloyd's third-grade students continue to explore the differences between literal and figurative language. The poem they are reading is "Fireflies."
Reading Response in Third Grade: Demonstration Small Group
Tammy Mulligan leads a group of third graders in a small group designed to deepen their reading response. The video includes excerpts from the planning and debrief sessions with their...
Anchor Lesson: Analyzing a Poem
Leslie Lloyd's third graders analyze literal and figurative language in Donald Graves's poem "Bully." This is the second installment in a four-part series.
Kindergarten Small Group: Concepts of Print
This "quick and frequent" kindergarten small group is instructed by Clare Landrigan and explores concepts of print.
Wyatt’s Running Record
Bitsy Parks completes a running record with first grader Wyatt.
The Value of Story Play
Recently we were talking with some kindergarten teachers about how we could include opportunities for talk and verbal response to reading. Our data showed that their students needed more opportunity...
Anchor Lesson: Setting Goals
Leslie Lloyd introduces an anchor lesson to her third graders using Patrick Allen's analogy of a spaghetti strainer.
The Staircase Reading Response: Demonstration Small Group
In the second of a two-part video series, Clare Landrigan leads a demonstration small group with fourth graders who have an intriguing way of responding to reading.
Coaching Minute: Read to Every Class
Principal Jennifer Schwanke has a simple strategy for building connections to every reader in her school: she regularly reads to every class.
The Staircase Reading Response: Planning Session
In this first video in a two-part series, Clare Landrigan and Tammy Mulligan meet with fourth-grade teachers to assess student reading responses and plan a demonstration small group that Clare...
