Matt Renwick
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Matt Renwick is an elementary principal who writes at Read by Example and tweets @ReadByExample. He is a veteran public educator, working first as a classroom teacher and now serving as the school leader at Mineral Point Elementary School (Mineral Point, Wisconsin). Matt’s educational writing and consultant work focus primarily on literacy instruction, school leadership, and technology integration. He has spoken at national conferences, including ASCD, ISTE, NAESP, NCTE, as well as facilitated workshops and professional learning experiences.
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Feedback Is Overrated: Focus First on Building Positive, Trusting Relationships
Matt Renwick gives three tips to build relationships that will open doors to receive feedback.
Five Classroom Design Ideas for Supporting Readers and Writers with ADHD
Matt Renwick encourages five classroom design ideas for supporting readers and writers with ADHD.
Coaching Toward Independence: Using an Instructional Framework to Guide a Principal-Teacher Conversation
Matt Renwick shares how leaders can use an instructional framework to bridge discussions that will honor teachers’ professional learning journeys.
Reshaping Personal Narratives with Awareness, Reflection, and Support
Matt Renwick shares a candid personal story of his own diagnosis of ADHD, and then encourages us to consider the way the narratives we create about who we are and who we might become are based on how we perceive our pasts. Matt challenges us to resist these narratives and reshape them with awareness, reflection, and support.
Leading Literacy: What to Expect the First 5+ Years
Matt Renwick has compiled a guide for new principals to follow to intentionally become effective literacy leaders.
Five Questions to Ask When Reviewing Literacy Curriculum
Matt Renwick uses five questions to lead a team through reviewing a literacy curriculum resource. Download the checklist to use during your own review process.
Slicing Up the Pie
Matt Renwick masterfully outlines a complexity of public education: We are constantly making decisions on behalf of our students, and they rarely fully meet every kid’s needs. Knowing these limits and keeping students at the center of decision making (as opposed to the loudest calls to action from parents) ensures a more equitable educational experience for all.
Building a Schoolwide Coaching Culture
Matt Renwick offers three contexts in which a coaching culture is deliberately built and supported in school.
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