Marisa Thompson (M.A. Teacher Education) has fourteen years of experience teaching various levels of English including advanced and support classes.  District’s first Innovation Support coach. 

She is a designated cooperating teacher for several credential programs and a Professional Development instructor for University of San Diego. 

Her experiences culminate in a pedagogy she calls “Instruction-less Teaching,” which includes her TQE Method, currently in classrooms around the world from kindergarten to graduate school. 

Marisa appears on many podcasts including Cult of Pedagogy, writes for her own UnlimitedTeacher blog and others, and speaks regularly at districts’ professional development, universities’ credential programs, and education conferences. 

She recently won the 2019 Ed Innovate Live Pitch competition and was named CUE’s 2019 San Diego Innovative Educator of the Year.

• What is instruction-less teaching?
• So many expectations from everyone.
• Students are experts in their educational experience.
• So much on teacher’s plates
• High expectations vs purposeful expectations.
• I don’t need training, I need brain space
• How much time and brain space are we taking up in our kids?
• Get rid of your rubrics
• Figure out what skills your kids need to learn.
• Discussion based classroom
• Tasks are related to the skills they need to learn
• This is the ultimate year for reflection and adjustment not only for documentation but also for reflection and growth.
• Subversion - permission & protection to be creative
• Dr. Laura Spencer the genesis of subversive teaching
• Principals: Protect your teachers from the status quo
• How to be a transformative principal? Be in cahoots with the teachers and students. It’s ok if it doesn’t work!

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• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

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