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Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud Steve Barkley
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For the past 35 years, Steve Barkley has served as an education consultant to school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges and universities nationally and internationally, facilitating the changes necessary for them to reach students and successfully prepare them for the 21st century. A prolific published author, his weekly blog has evolved into a go-to resource for teachers and administrators all over the world. Visit BarkleyPD.com to learn more.
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Students Documenting Learning
Explore how teachers and students can be empowered with the implementation of student documented learning. Jennifer D. Klein, teacher, administrator, and author of "The Landscape Model of Learning: Designing Student-Centered Experiences for Cognitive and Cultural Inclusion," provides examples across grade levels. Her concrete examples illustrate the how as well as the “why” benefits. When students take accountability for documenting their learning, motivation often increases, and important life skills are practiced.
Connect with Jennifer to learn more and find her blogs, videos & books here.
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Building and Earning Trust as a Coach
As teachers’ relationships with those providing coaching grow from a foundation of trust, teacher vulnerability and risk-taking increase which positively impacts teacher growth. I had an earlier opportunity to explore earning trust and building trust with Jonathan Mueller, an experienced international school leader. He shares that when you can build rapport through unconditional positive regard with somebody, it helps build and continues to earn trust with people. Here are questions teacher have of a coach: Do you appreciate and value me? Can you help me? Can I trust you? Unconditional positive regard for people as human beings is an excellent way to start.
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Addressing Educator Burnout: Self Care in Not Enough
In his book, "Triage Your School: A Physician’s Guide to Preventing Burnout," Dr. Chris Jenson provides specific actions school leaders and coaches can take to address the elements of chronic stress for teachers and themselves. Combining his years as a doctor in an emergency room with his years teaching high school science, Dr. Jenson has a unique understanding. Chris states, “Like health care, triage prioritizes educators actions and provides a healthier perspective toward overflowing work demands...one that removes guilt and emotion from incomplete tasks.
Find Chris's Book, "Triage Your School" here.
Visit Chris's website here.
Find Chris's LinkedIn here.
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Teachers Building Students' SEL Skills
The author of "Teaching With The Heart in Mind," Dr. Lorea Martínez, who was a special education teacher and school administrator and worked with children and adults internationally, provides reinforcement for the value of purposefully planning for embedding SEL skills in the classroom, beyond teaching the SEL curriculum. She guides educators to provide the necessary resources and structures to support teachers’ social and emotional capacity; and go beyond the SEL curriculum to include the conditions that make learning and growth possible for all students.
Read "3 Misconceptions about SEL" here.
Contact Lorea and find her resources here.
Watch Lorea's video on Teacher Stress here.
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Focusing on Accountability
Accountability is a broader concept than responsibility - it’s something you do to yourself, not something that someone does to you. A focus on responsibility can create attitudes where people justify the ways they think and act to "cover their tails" which pulls in the opposite direction of achieving organizational or team results. With accountability, people not only take accountability for the results they need to achieve individually but for results that they are not 100% in control of. How might your leadership or coaching practices encourage accountability.
Read the Culture Partners post, "Responsibility vs Accountability" here.
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Coaching Teachers Building Agile Classrooms
Agile education coach and the founder of The Agile Mind, Jessica Cavallaro, describes why students and teachers benefit from working with Agile teaching and learning processes. Jessica shares how she works with teachers and administrators to integrate agile principles and the rewards that everyone can experience.
E-mail Jessica: jessica@the-agile-mind.com
Find Jessica's website and resources here.
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