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How to Build Your System for Knowing, Thinking, and Writing

Your notes deserve better than to be forgotten. Matt Renwick shares a system that supports what you know, think, and write and helps ensure your ideas have a home beyond a disorganized binder.

Teachers as Leaders: Five Ways to Create the Conditions for Change (Part 2)

In this second installment, Matt Renwick clarifies a pathway school leaders can take as they seek more equitable outcomes for all students. School improvement is complex, adaptive work. The five Vs framework acknowledges this reality and provides structure without imposing rigidity. 

Teachers as Leaders: Five Ways to Create the Conditions for Change (Part 1)

Matt Renwick shares a model to lean on as teachers and coaches navigate the unpredictable terrain of school-wide change. This is the first installment of a two-part series.

Gaining Confidence One Move at a Time

Heather Fisher knows firsthand that confidence does not come easy. Here she shares three intentional actions leaders can take to build their confidence in leading professional learning.

Pay Attention to What You Pay Attention To: Leveraging the Power of a Door

Ruth Ayres invites us use our doors as an opportunity to share core values and inspire others. As leaders, we are change makers. We can leverage attentional bias to help make change positive and joyful in our schools. 

The Difference Between Change and Transition

Matt Renwick teases out the differences between change and transition. Transitions have a longer timeline than change. Leaders can accelerate this process by building trust, providing clarity, and understanding the process that comes with renewal.

Goals Create Direction

Brian Sepe offers sage advice about goal-setting to relieve stress. He offers a simple framework that will keep your coaching conversations focused on student growth and forward momentum.

The Coach’s Notebook: How to Capture and Organize Your Notes to Support Your Practice

Matt Renwick opens his own coaching notebook and teaches school leaders ways to support teaching and learning through structured note-taking. The coach’s notebook is not art; it is a tool that supports your practice.

Hosting School-Wide World Read Aloud Day Author Visits

Gigi McAllister is a fantastic guide to help navigate World Read Aloud Day. Whether you want to join for the first-time or you’re a veteran participant, Gigi’s tips will make it easy to participate.

The Confident Coach: Seven Competencies to Empower Your Practice

Matt Renwick shares the qualities of a confident coach. Take a coaching competencies assessment to find out where your strengths lie.

The Digital Declutter: Developing a Life Beyond Distractions

Matt Renwick helps us consider a digital declutter. We all have limited time, and we have choice and agency. It’s up to us to decide what we want to commit our attention and time to today and in the future.

Using Metaphors and Analogies to Help Educators Shift Their Thinking and Change Their Practices

Matt Renwick shares the power of using metaphors and analogies during coaching conversations.

Transforming Our Own Professional Learning

Hannah Tills and Josie Stewart were inspired by Elena Aguilar’s work about transformational coaching. They share ways to be vulnerable when trying a new coaching technique with teachers, as well as the powerful outcome of implementing new reflective practice ideas.

Ways to Support Colleagues, Part 1

Ruth Ayres and Becca Burk share ways to strengthen our teamwork and help lower the stress levels of adults in the school when students exhibit dysregulated behaviors. This is the first installment of a two-part series.

Capturing Meeting Notes to Boost Accountability

Hannah Tills and Josie Stewart discovered a template to help boost accountability after a planning session with a teacher.

Help! I’m a New Coach

Mary Brower confronts the reality that often coaches have more ideas than they can possibly act on. She offers a filter to organize and vet ideas.

Humanizing Data

Hannah Tills and Josie Stewart share a way to open data conversations that humanizes the process and encourages everyone to dig deeper to examine each student’s whole story.

Reshaping Data Stories

Ruth Ayres encourages us to take a second look at the data stories we are telling about students. She shares four areas to help us see a more complete picture of a student.

Nuances of Norms (Part 2)

Ruth Ayres tackles the common resistance to norms. When norms seem to suck the energy out of the room, don’t make the mistake of thinking you need a new list of norms. Try one of these ideas to use norms to energize your team.

Shaping the School Culture to Encourage Professional Growth

Matt Renwick offers three suggestions for school leaders who want to shape school culture to encourage professional growth.

Are Norms the Problem? Part 1

Ruth Ayres shares the details of developing and using norms in intentional and meaningful ways. This is the first of three installments in a series about norms.

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