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A Four-Pronged Approach to Teaching
After years of observing learning in my classroom, I have come to believe that students learn best when they work together, when they are challenged, and when content is connected to their lives. Based...
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Uncovering a National Treasure: Teachers Who Make a Profound Difference in...
This is the season of national holidays: Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. As we don our red,white, and blue, let’s not forget our teachers and the role education plays in...
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An Issue of Connectivity
In his seminal work Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois prophesied that the problem of the 20th Century would be the color line. While his argument has clearly been proven prescient and true, the...
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How an Instructional Coach Uses a Quiver of Strategies for a Bull’s Eye Approach
Polly Rowell works as an instructional coach at Meadow Lakes Elementary School in the Matsu Borough School District in Alaska. Most of her 27 years of teaching have been in a first grade classroom, but...
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Building Teacher Capacity – Thoughts From A New Generation of Coaches
When I became an instructional coach 10 years ago, my district’s coaches were veteran teachers with 25 years of experience. We had been selected from a pool of skilled, older teachers, with years of...
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Coaching the Love and Logic Way
I recently attended a series of classes on Love and Logic to help me deal with my tween-ager. While sitting in class during the fifth session, I realized how much of parenting the “Love and Logic” way...
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From Theory to Action
Have you ever wondered if the work you are doing is the right work? Are you spinning your wheels, staying busy with little impact? Is your message getting across? Do all people hear the same message?...
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Making Content Relevant: “By Words, the Mind is Winged”
Last spring, I wrote on this blog about making content matter. There is a funny thing that happens when you write a blog that comes together nicely–a blog that others read, a blog that your boss...
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You Have to Want to Change
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” ~ Carl Jung Change. Change is hard. Change is stressful. Nobody enjoys change. For people to want to...
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Focusing on Instructional Leadership
Note: This blog was originally posted on the Teaching Channel website to introduce its learning community to Success at the Core resources. All links in the post take you to SaC materials on the...
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