Judy Thompson shares her views on how our traditional, "industrial" schooling model needs to change. Her focus on coaching and facilitating learning emerged as she recognized how teaching English as reading and writing wasn’t leading to success with the language. Consider how her thinking supports your desire for maximizing student learning. 

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Authors, Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran share insights from their work with creating open systems for change that can have implications for being open in our classroom environments. They explore what it would mean for teachers to be democracy builders?  

John Dewey - "What direction shall we give to the work of school so that it the richness and fullness of the democratic way of life in all its scope may be promoted?”

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The complexity of teaching and learning provides for great educator learning and satisfaction. Coaches assist educators in the conversations, reflection and conscious practice that are key to continuous teacher learning leading to increased student progress. Coach and teacher need to let go of having the right answer and focus on creating and discovering how to impact maximum success.

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Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, the authors of "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy," share their insights for building future education plans alongside students, families, and communities instead of using our historical, closed, top-down approaches. Consider how your leadership lifts up others who will work to move co-created initiatives forward in their own ways.

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Author, Dr. Joanne Foster shares insights on creativity from her extensive experience as a teacher, parent, and teacher educator at the University of Toronto, teaching Educational Psychology and Gifted Education. She offers strategies from her most recent book, "Ignite Your Ideas: Creativity for Kids" and explores developing teachers’ creativity to impact student creativity.

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Find "ABCs of Raising Smarter Kids" here. 

Find Being Smart about Gifted Learning (3rd Edition) here.

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Are you students partners in your school’s decisions? Does your multi-cultural curriculum and pedagogy benefit all students? Does your school have a cultural of love, patience, trust, caring, forgiveness, commitment? Dr. Luvelle Brown, Superintendent of Ithaca Schools in New York State, and the author of "Culture of Love: Cultivating a Positive and Transformational Organizational Culture" explores these topics and more.

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The author of "Rethinking Recess: Creating Safe and Inclusive Playtime For All Children in School," Dr. Rebecca London, shares her research and guidelines for recess from Playworks. Find "lookfors" and important mindsets for educators to explore about the key elements and benefits of recess. Should we be coaching teachers and assistants for guiding students to gain the most from recess time?

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Dr. Joanne Foster is returning to our podcast upon the release of her new book, "Ignite Your Ideas: Creativity for Kids," written for children 12 and older. It provides understandings and strategies, generates exciting, accessible choices and joyful creative experiences for kids and their families. Teachers will also find countless possibilities and strategies. In this podcast, Dr. Foster highlights the role of agency and effort in creativity. She shares a few of the over 100 sure-fire ways to spark creativity across many different areas of interest that are found in her book.

Find "Mess for Succes" here. You’re invited to scroll through and explore LOTS of resources, and this particular one is listed partway down under the heading “Articles on Important Topics

At this website, including the bookshop, you can take advantage of  a discount code specially set for the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud community! Use POL20! at check out for 20% off these books: "Ignite Your Ideas," "Being Smart about Gifted Learning," "ABCS of Raising Smarter Kids, Bust Your BUTS," and "Not Now, Maybe Later" – valid till Dec. 31st, 2023. Great now and for holiday gift-giving.

Problem saturated conversations can lead to a limited focus on any solution, a negative impact on morale, as well as a decrease in collaboration and teamwork. Lana Cecil, a coach of instructional coaches and teachers, shares her "Positober" strategy: a plan to address a common dip that occurs for many educators sometimes called the October dip. Some describe it as a long stretch while you’re really tired. Others describe it as hitting the wall, barely making it through the week, with endless weeks of the school year ahead of you. How can coaches and leaders respond to problem saturated conversations?

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Author and international educator, Ann Lautrette, describes a co-constructed classroom as a space where students are valued and empowered, where teachers and students work together to plan learning, to do learning, and to assess learning. How can coaches and school leaders create a space for teachers to stop doing some good things to make room for doing things that may be better?

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