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The Lead Learners is a professional learning network in northern Indiana to encourage instructional leadership and literacy practices. The Lead Learners exists to help educators stay sharp and engage learners.
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Bridging the Gap (Session 1): The Sold a Story Peel
Mary Brower shares a professional learning experience that peels back the layers of the Sold a Story podcast to help teachers find common ground in reading instruction. Includes a template for a guided conversation.
Empowering Teachers and Building Relationships
As a traveling coach, Mary Brower was overwhelmed by the amount of things she was. One day when the load felt too big, she heard joy spilling out of a classroom. Stopping to look into the classroom led to a powerful connection with a teacher…and a realization about what a coach really needs to carry.
Building Teacher Confidence, Building Leaders: The Power of Observation
Paula Fiscus questions how to uplift more teacher leaders, and decides peer observations may be the catalyst to teachers believing they can grow and lead. Paula offers procedures, forms, and the encouragement needed to set peer observations in motion in your school
Making Learning Visible from Coaching Cycles
Jonathan Winslow offers three practical ways to share teacher learning during a coaching cycle with the entire school or district. His suggestions are excellent ways to uplift teacher voices and inspire one another.
Coaching Minute: Ask for Help
Curriculum director Inga Omondi advises the best thing for leaders to do is ask for help.
Coaching Minute: Keep a Meeting Journal
Curriculum director Inga Omondi spends a lot of time in meetings. To make connections, remember next steps, and stay organized, she keeps a journal with all of her meeting notes.
Coaching Minute: Tough Meetings
Curriculum director Inga Omondi understands the tension that can build in meetings. She offers advice for instructional coaches on what to do after a tough meeting.
Assessing High School Readers
Secondary instructional coach Holly Wenning shares ways to assess high school readers.
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