Experienced coaches and professional learning practitioners, Nicole Turner and Brianna Gray, provide their experiences and insights regarding how to support teachers with professional learning during this time of unique teaching and learning settings. Both share things that they feel have influenced their practice for the future.

Read Simply Instructional Coaching - Questions Asked and Answered from the Field here.

Read Talking in Class - Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Student-to-Student Dialogue in the Classroom here.

Contact Nicole at: [email protected] 

Contact Brianna at: [email protected]

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In this podcast, Steve is joined by music teacher & mentor, Jon Schwartz to explore the impact of personalizing learning. 

Read Jon's article, "Mentoring Can Bring a Personal Touch to Distance Learning."

Visit Jon's website here.

In this week's episode of the podcast, Steve is joined by principal and coach, Dr. Mark Wilson, to look at where we are today as the school year is underway and how current observations can influence the work of instructional coaches and administrators. 

Visit Dr. Wilson's website here.

Contact Dr. Wilson: [email protected]

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Patience is an important parenting, life, and success skill. Examine your continuing development of patience and the importance of and strategies for modelling and teaching patience to your children. More time with “school learning” at home requires increased patience on all our parts. We can all benefit from developing more patience.

4 Steps to More Patience as a Parent

Becoming a More Patient Leader

5 Keys to Leading Through Uncertainty

Patience is a Virtue

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Coaches and mentors need to introduce beginning teachers to coaching where the teacher is directing the process. This differs from supervisory conferences that they experienced in the past. Listen as Steve models a pre-conference with a beginning teacher.

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Whether your learners are working virtually, in classrooms, or doing both in a hybrid model, your assistance as a learning coach can build more current academic success now and reinforce important executive functioning skills. These are career and life skills. Listen as Steve provides some specific focus areas and examples of what coaching conversations might sound like.

Listen to Steve's podcast on time management here.

In this week's episode, Steve identifies some specific leadership actions to purposefully implement as we focus on maximizing learning for students under conditions that are new and uncertain.

In Times of Uncertainty, These are the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders

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As this school year begins with unknowns and different learning settings, some conversations with your children can better prepare them to be resilient in these situations. Consider the responses you might use as children share some worries or concerns. What strategies can you model to build resilience?

How to Talk to Your Kids About the Upcoming School Year

Helping Your Child Cope With Back to School Anxiety

Building Resilience

Steve's Blog Post on Time Management

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