NHASCD Spotlight: A Podcast

With the increase in teacher/administrator stress and increase in challenging student behavior, self-regulation is key to bolstering resilience.  When an educator knows how to self-regulate they then have the capacity to teach and model to their students how to self-regulate.  Listen to Emily Read Daniels share information about the importance of a regulated classroom.

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Emily Read Daniels is the author of The Regulated Classroom©, an approach to cultivating conditions for felt safety in the classroom. She developed this approach after spending years as a school counselor working with dysregulated students and staff.

In 2017, she founded HERE this NOW, a trauma-responsive schools consultancy and educator resource.  HERE this NOW began as a way for her to bring basic trauma-informed information to schools and educators. 

In June of 2017, she resigned from her position as a student-assistance counselor to launch her own consulting firm. Her firm, HERE this NOW, provides training, coaching, and consultation to those organizations and systems seeking to become trauma-informed and trauma-responsive.

You can reach Emily, learn more about her work, and access the resources she has developed at https://regulatedclassroom.com/

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Authors Stefani Arzonetti Hite and Jenni Donohoo share insights on the relationships between student achievement and collective efficacy as well as their model for leading collective teacher efficacy.

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Dr. Stefani Arzonetti Hite is an acclaimed author and internationally renowned leadership expert.  Backed by over thirty years of experience in education as a teacher, administrator, and international school leader, Stef supports schools in developing effective systemic change initiatives.  Dr. Hite is a member of ASCD's FIT Teaching® (Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching®) Cadre, is the founder of Tigris Solutions, and has authored several ASCD Educational Leadership articles.  You can reach Dr. Hite through Tigris Solutions.

Dr. Jenni Donohoo is a five-time best-selling author and professional learning facilitator with more than 20 years experience in leading school change. Jenni works in school divisions across North America supporting high-quality professional learning designed to improve outcomes for all students. As the Director of the Jenni Donohoo Center for Collective Efficacy, Jenni has been recognized internationally as an educational thought leader and has delivered keynote speeches nationally and internationally. You can reach Dr. Donohoo at [email protected]

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Collective Efficacy: Powerful Stories of Achievement and Equity is available from Corwin, Amazon and other online booksellers.

Listen to an interview with instructional coaching founder, Jim Knight about his newest ASCD book, The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success.

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Jim Knight is a founding senior partner of the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching,  You can reach Jim and learn more about his work at the Instructional Coaching Group.

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 The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching:  Seven Factors for Success is available from ASCD, Amazon, and other online booksellers.

Noted leadership coach Dr. Jill Harrison Berg shares how teacher leaders amplify the power of collaborative inquiry as a means for identifying, interrogating, and addressing instructional inequity and speaks about the three levels of learning:  individual, relational, and organizational.

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Jill Harrison Berg, Ed.D. is a leadership coach, school improvement consultant, researcher and writer committed to maximizing the leadership potential of teachers. In addition to Uprooting Instructional Inequity (ASCD 2022), Dr. Berg is the author of Leading in Sync: Teacher Leaders and Principals Working Together for Student Learning (ASCD, 2018). Her monthly column, “Leading Together,” in ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine aims to heighten leaders’ attention to the complementary roles that teacher leaders and administrators must play in restructuring and re-culturing schools for equity and excellence.

You can reach Jill, learn more about her work, and access tools and resources she has developed for educational leaders at www.jhbergonline.com.

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Uprooting Instructional Inequity: The Power of Inquiry-Based Professional Learning is available from ASCD (member discount available), Amazon and other online booksellers.

Members of the inaugural cohort of Klawe Fellows for EdReports share their stories and the importance of advocacy in their work.

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What role does empathy play in the success of a school leader?  Listen to Dr. Thomas Hoerr share the importance of empathy in being effective and the key skills in becoming a Chief Empathy Officer.

ABOUT DR. THOMAS HOERR

Thomas R. Hoerr, PhD retired after leading the New City School in St. Louis, Missouri for 34 years and is now the Emeritus Head of School. He is currently a Scholar In Residence at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and teaches in the Educational Leadership program, preparing prospective principals. He also led the ISACS New Heads Network and founded the Non-Profit Management Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Hoerr has written five books, and his newest, Taking Social Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff, was published in December of 2019. He has written more than 150 articles, including “The Principal Connection” column in Educational Leadership Magazine from 2004 to 2017.

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Author and teacher Jennifer Orr shares how to take the passion and chatter that K–5 students bring to the classroom and turn it into conversation skills that make them better learners?

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Jennifer Orr is an elementary school teacher in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She has taught for more than two decades in almost every elementary grade at schools serving highly diverse populations. She has experience with students who are learning English; in special education and advanced academic programs; and from military families.

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Superintendent of Schools Jennifer Gillis (Manchester School District), Sydney Leggett (SAU 75), and Meredith Nadeau (SAU 21), the original organizers of the NH Women in Educational Leadership Initiative, share the challenges for women in educational leadership.

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Dr. Jennifer Gillis - [email protected];  Dr. Sydney Leggett - [email protected]; Meredith Nadeau - [email protected]

"Although a content-neutral approach to supervision—one that emphasizes general pedagogical features such as student engagement, cognitive load, or classroom management—is undoubtedly beneficial, the best instructional leaders know that content-specific approaches are necessary to achieve real excellence."  Listen to Dr. Rebecca Lowenhaupt and Dr. Rebecca Katsch-Singer share their insights and strategies from their work in the Instructional Leadership for Science Project (ILSP) and their book, The Instructional Leader's Guide to Implementing K-8 Science.

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Website:  https://www.sciencepracticesleadership.com

Kathy Perret and Kenny McKee join the podcast to discuss dealing with barriers teachers face and the corresponding ways that coaches can help teachers surmount them.  They share insights from their new book, Compassionate Coaching: How Educators Navigate the Barriers to Professional Growth.