The IKEA Effect occurs when people successfully complete a labor-intense task and value the fruits of their labor and the products they have created.  As teachers we look to empower students by increasing voice and choice in selecting learning outcomes and providing appropriate scaffolding when needed and requested.

Read Angela Duckworth's Blog on the Ikea Effect here. 

Listen to Steve interview Joe Griffith about the Homelessness Simulation project here. 

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We often need to reframe our mindset or the way we define a problem in order to make real progress. In this first part of a series on reframing, Steve examines reframing from a focus on fear to a focus on love. How do our choices and decisions change if we shift from minimizing the negative impact of the pandemic on students to maximizing students’ opportunities?

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Author, Kindergarten teacher, dance teacher, and parent, Madeleine Rogin, illustrates the impact of play for wellness and learning. Memories of joyful and meaningful play experiences help bind families together emotionally, even long after children are grown. A great reward for all involved.

Read Madeleine's article, "Emphasizing the Importance of Play During Distance Learning" here. 

Read Madeleine's article, "Five Essentials to Meaningful Play" here. 

Get in touch with Madeleine: [email protected]

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Steve explores three areas of questioning to guide coaching conversations: Finding out and Knowing, Reflection, and Exploring Future Actions. Examples used in pre and post conferencing are included.

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Hear how this teacher’s joyful mindset resulted in a classroom where student learning excelled. Brittany Cabrera describes why “keeping it simple” is a key to joyfulness.

Find Brittany on LinkedIn. 

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After presenting critical elements of effective Professional Growth Plans, Steve often provides leadership teams with a series of questions to facilitate their decision-making around a process for their school. This podcast focuses on those follow up questions and Steve’s thinking around one team’s responses.

You can find more about critical elements of PGPs including the role of hypothesis and evidence collection in these resources:

Blogs - 

Developing and Coaching Teachers’ Professional Growth Plans 

Professional Growth Plans   

Hypothesis and Evidence: Words to Use In Professional Growth Plans

Podcasts - 

Building Professional Growth Plans With Backwards Planning  

Building Professional Growth Plans Around Hypothesis & Evidence

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Gain some great resources and motivation for sparking your child’s interest (at any age) in science. An experienced and passionate science educator and writer for the National Science Teacher's Association, Denise Wright, provides encouragement and ways to get started.

Find Denise on Twitter: @DenisecWright

E-mail Denise: [email protected]

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How does a coach decide when it is time to offer a suggestion or a solution to a teacher’s presentation of a problem or a request for help? Writing in "Responsive Agile Coaching," Niall McShane describes a process of coaching across to showing and telling or coaching down to deeper conversation. Steve describes developing a coach’s intuition that can be supported with listening, looking and test-options.

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Professional Learning should be personalized. Allie Rodman, author and founder of The Learning Loop, identifies ways that teachers can maximize the value of their ongoing learning in the post pandemic setting. How do you tap into, direct, and personalize your learning opportunities?

Visit Allie's website, The Learning Loop, here.  

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Increasingly today, many educators are moving from an instructional coaching role to administrative positions at the school and district level. Crystal Frommert, a current middle school instructional coach who will begin a new position next school year as an assistant middle school head, joins this podcast. Crystal and Steve explore how she envisions her instructional coaching experiences impacting her new leadership role.

Read Crystal’s Article on Edutopia, "4 Ways to Maximize the Benefit of Having an Instructional Coach," here.  

Read Steve's blog, "Why Reach Out For Coaching," here.  

Follow Crystal on Twitter: @mrs_frommert