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The theme of our newsletter this month is creating learning teams – and it is my favorite yet! At the beginning of my teaching career, I was overwhelmed by all I needed to learn to be great for my students. However, because I was fortunate enough to work at a
Last month, we featured beginning-of-year instructional coaching practices to kickstart student achievement. We know, though, that strong classroom management is a necessary but insufficient ingredient for student learning. So once classroom foundations are set, how do you shift to coaching with student learning at the forefront? We propose that you
Earlier this summer, we shared a blog post on designing instructional coaching systems to ensure teacher growth. And while systems for instructional coaching are certainly necessary to coaching success, they are, on their own, insufficient in driving teacher growth. This is, of course, because the content of coaching determines whether
This month’s blog covers foundational steps to establishing a strong coaching practice in your network or school. See here for all of the embedded resources you’ll find in the entry below for ease of access: ________________________________________________________ I recently came across a 2018 meta-analysis on the effectiveness of coaching that found
In recent blogs, we’ve been diving deep into exemplary math instruction, breaking down what research reveals about how to develop math problem solvers. This is a topic we’re deeply interested in and will return to in the fall. This month, though, we want to shift our attention to the beautiful
Last month, we introduced the topic of our next few posts: the Science of Math instruction. This is an area of increasing importance, not just here in Florida, but nationally. The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data showed alarming trends in math, including a continued lack of
