Impact of Educational Leadership Podcast Episode 186

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III

Panelist: Shawania Marshall| Delna Bryan | Michael Brown | LaTisha Anderson |

Addressing Teacher Culture

Creating an atmosphere of safety that encourages staff and students' social, emotional, and physical well-being is critical for learning. Teachers are expected to give high-quality instruction aligned to their State standards while maintaining curricula, teaching practices and in diverse learning environments that are standards-based, evidence-based, engaging, differentiated, culturally responsive, and data-driven by considering what students should know and be able to do based on the State standards for that lesson. They break down content into appropriate daily objectives, decrease the formal language, measure mastery, illustrate the lesson objective on the board, and role-play with the students. Then restate the learning goal and have students reflect on their mastery level based on the completed learning activity. Teachers can only be successful in these endeavors by successfully addressing teacher culture. When this is done, students will know the lesson's expectations, be empowered to accomplish the plan, and have a common focus for learning.

Larry Davis: How are we using uses consensus-building, conflict-management, and communication to collaborate development of a shared campus vision and mission focused on teaching and learning?

Delna Bryan: How are we using information-gathering strategies to involve various stakeholders in planning processes that address teacher culture?

Shawania Marshall: Why should teachers in public schools be aware of these practices to access additional resources as needed to support learning?