Lead Lit Article Type: Picture It
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Picture It: Reorganizing a Professional Book Library
We recently began organizing and preparing for the upcoming school year. This is a picture of our professional text library, reorganized with purpose and efficiency in mind. What was...
Picture It: Mentoring Organization
Here you see Mandy Robek has sorted her markers into color bins so kindergarten students can easily find what they need and return it to the right place. Valuable teaching...
Picture It: Mirroring
Askwomen.net defines mirroring as “A powerful tool that enables you to build closeness…Mirroring body language is a non-verbal way to say 'I am like you, I feel the same.’” Here...
Picture It: Live Demonstration
We can tell about it. Better still, we can tell and read about it. Even better we can pair that reading with video in a real classroom. But when Heather...
Picture It: Celebrate!
There are many times throughout the year when it is important to take a moment to celebrate all the wonderful things happening in our school community. As a principal, I...
Picture It: Binder Full of Coaching
Heather Rader keeps her binder with her as she moves between the 13 elementary schools in her district. Each tab belongs to one of the educators with whom she’s currently...
Picture It: Just in Time Writing Resources
An Outlook appointment pops up to remind Heather Sisson that the spring writing assessment is approaching in three weeks for her K-6 colleagues. She uses clear plastic tubs to display...
Picture It: Demonstrating Observation Skills
Amanda Adrian (left) sits close by colleague Linda Karamatic during their introduction to reading workshop class for teachers. During the “show it” phase, Linda and Amanda alternate conferring with student...
Picture It: Objectives and the Coach
Setting and communicating clear objectives to students is essential. In his article “Objectives That Students Understand,” Robert J. Marzano points out that an ineffective use of objectives is “writing the...
Picture It: Pinterest for Professional Development
This fall we are trying a new way to organize how we share professional readings and videos for our professional development sessions. We are creating text sets of professional readings/videos/blog...
Picture It: A Soothing Workspace
This year I want to be more mindful about my workspace -- to use the space to help my work instead of hinder it. In my job as a principal,...
Heather Sisson’s Coaching Space
Literacy coach Heather Sisson has a shelf of resources available to teachers in her coaching space. A simple checkout system puts everything from cooperative learning books to mentor texts...
Teacher and Coach Common Quiet Signals
Each teacher has one or more special signals to get students’ attention. When literacy coach Heather Rader began working with second-grade teacher Sean Moore she noted how he asked students...
Picture It: Increasing Comfort with Technology
We know that technology has changed the way we access and use texts in our daily lives. Here you see both teacher- and student-generated ideas for future blog posts in...
