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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Navigating the Science of Reading: How to Hold a Professional Conversation About Teaching Readers
Matt Renwick helps leaders navigate science of reading conversations with these three powerful tips.
A Richer Picture: Assessing Our Students as Readers (And Not Just in Reading)
Matt Renwick shares a powerful story of a student growing leaps and bounds as a reader. He insists that we must always look beyond isolated data points, and gives several resources to richly assess students as readers.
The True Test of Leadership
Matt Renwick delivers a powerful essay about the true test of leadership as he reflects on a sustained medical leave of absence. Matt reveals the importance of shared leadership and offers guidance to strengthen it in your school.
35 Ways Leaders Can Improve School Culture
Matt Renwick shares 35 actions leaders can take to create a stronger school culture. If you are a new leader, you can use this list and implement one a week throughout the school year.
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.
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