Resilience is the capacity that allows a person, group, community or family to prevent, minimize or overcome the damaging effects of adversity. Children who lack resiliency need teachers, parents and other care givers to help them become resilient. This podcast explores some strategies for building your family’s hero journey through this challenging time.

How to Build a Resilient School Community: Three ways to Preserve Relationships So We Emerge Stronger Together (Phyllis Fagell)

The Importance of Setting Family Goals – and How to Do It 

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Chad Dumas, the author of Let’s Put the C Back in PLC’s, shares strategies for instructional coaches and school leaders to support the effectiveness of PLCs. The conversation includes the skills that teachers need to gain to work effectively as team members and the understanding that as long as leaders are directing PLC’s, the true power cannot be achieved reached.

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Listen in as a teacher and parent share with Steve their experiences with hybrid and virtual learning through both lenses. Hear the importance of their communication to support each other in maximizing learning opportunities.

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Steve joins Cory Camp on The Coach Replay Show to explore how instructional coaching will be impacted by COVID-19 for the remainder of the school year. They discuss how creating ongoing learning opportunities for educators will be the key to maximize learning for students.

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Dr. Cathy Vatterott, the author of Rethinking Homework and Rethinking Grading provides teachers with research backed elements that increase the likelihood of investments of student time engaged in homework having a learning payoff. The connection between homework and grading is also addressed.

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Connect with Cathy on Twitter: @realhomeworkldy

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Dr. Cathy Vatterott shares insights from her twenty years’ experience researching homework truths and myths. She identifies ways that instructional coaches and administrators can guide teachers’ reflection on their decisions regarding homework. The impacts of virtual instructional are also discussed.

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Connect with Cathy on Twitter: @realhomeworkldy

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Having a conversation with your child about a report card with lower than expected grades is never easy.  Currently, more parents than ever are in this position with the impact of the COVID quarantine and virtual learning. Planning for these conversations can lead to the development of important life skills and mindsets as well as strengthened relationships.

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Heather Lyon, an assistant superintendent and the author of, Engagement is Not a Unicorn (It’s a Narwhal) describes her Engagement Framework and its application for supporting teacher professional development and coaching. She identifies the connections between learning tasks and relationships in extending student engagement. 

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Too often, instruction can be overly focused on teaching which can be seen as orderly, sequential and manageable, while learning is often spontaneous, irregular, non-linear and complex. The key element in achieving learning is generating the critical learning behaviors. This podcast explores the connected learning behaviors in different instructional settings.

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On this podcast, Steve is interviewed by Michael Iannini, the coordinator of PD for ACAMIS, the Association of China and Mongolia International Schools.  They explore the many faces of coaching as a preliminary conversation to Steve’s facilitation of Personalized Coaching for ACAMIS schools.

Learn about personalized coaching from ACAMIS here.

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