Steve explains how goal setting can give students a picture of the future which can increase motivation and in turn, effort and engagement. 

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Sherry St. Clair, the author of Coaching Redefined, shares five focus points for school leaders to develop environments and relationships that build social and emotional wellness.  Examine how a listening tour might be a starting point.

Visit the Reflective Learning website here.

Find Sherry's book, Coaching Redefined here.

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When our behaviors are motivated internally, it increases positive emotions, generates feelings of satisfaction and meaning. This can help improve and build contentment and confidence in the long term. It can also results in more sustained interest, excitement, confidence, persistence, self-esteem, and performance over time. This podcast contains steps you can take as parents to support the building of your child’s intrinsic motivation.

Daniel Pink - "The Puzzle of Motivation"

"25 Ways to Cultivate Intrinsic Motivation"

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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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