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Coaching Minute: Creating Conversations to Anchor Professional Relationships
Instructional coach Jen Court takes advantage of the early days of a school year to be present with classroom teachers and create conversations that begin to anchor meaningful professional relationships.
QuickTake: Chronicling Learning All Year
Tammy Mulligan shares a beginning-of-the-year routine where second graders create an identity frame. This becomes a place to highlight photographs of their learning each week throughout the school year.
Coaching Minute: Set-Up Coaching Plans
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills share an important first step for instructional coaches to help teachers feel invited into the coaching relationship: Make shared coaching plans.
QuickTake: Leave Space for Personalization
Melissa Quimby advises leaving space for students to personalize the classroom when they arrive to start the new school year.
Coaching Minute: Welcoming Students as an Instructional Coach
David Pittman reflects on ways instructional coaches can help create an atmosphere of belonging for students.
Quick Take: Listen to Create a Sense of Belonging
Stella Villalba encourages all educators to listen to students to understand how to create a culture of belonging.
Coaching Minute: Keep the Focus on Students
Inga Omondi suggests keeping the focus on students in order to entice apprehensive teachers into a coaching relationship.
Circulating During Writing Workshop
Christy Rush-Levine circulates for quick conferences as students complete their literary analysis essays.
Coaching Minute: Navigating Tough Conversations
Instructional coach Holly Wenning shares advice for navigating tough conversations.
Conferring Over Character Motivation
Christy Rush-Levine confers with Erica about her reading response to 13th Reality. She helps Erica consider character motivation.
Coaching Minute: The Gift of Time
Instructional coach Mary Brower shares an idea to give the gift of time to teachers.
Quick Take: Using Mailboxes for Private Feedback
Christy Rush-Levine shares her system for streamlining passing papers and offering a place for private feedback.
Coaching Minute: The Importance of Patience
Instructional coach Mary Brower reminds us of the importance of patience, especially with ourselves.
Coaching Minute: Invitations for Secondary Teachers
Instructional coach Holly Wenning shares ways to invite secondary teachers to work alongside a coach.
Coaching Minute: Taking Risks
Instructional coach Mary Brower encourages us to notice leaders and teachers who are taking risks. Couple a quick note with an inspirational story, and you will build strong professional connections...
Coaching Minute: Supporting a Principal’s Vision
Holly Wenning attests to the importance of instructional coaches knowing and supporting a principal's vision. Holly is a secondary instructional coach.
Book Talk: Sheets and Delicates by Brenna Thummler
Christy Rush-Levine pairs Brenna Thummler's books Sheets and Delicates in this book talk for her sixth-grade class.
Coaching Minute: Be Aware of How Your Presence Affects the Room
In this installment about norms for professional learning, Ruth Ayres shares the importance of being aware of how your presence affects the room.
Quick Take: Simple Classroom Library Organization
Christy Rush-Levine shares her simple system for organizing her massive classroom library.
Coaching Minute: Expect and Accept a Lack of Closure
In this installment about norms for professional learning, Ruth Ayres shares why it is important to expect and accept a lack of closure.
Coaching Minute: What’s Said Here Stays Here; What’s Learned Here Leaves Here
In this installment about norms for professional learning, Ruth Ayres shares the importance of having a place for instructional coaches to learn, as well as process their own situations. The...
