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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In this podcast Steve shares an example of his process for facilitating a leadership team’s identification of hypotheses underlying their team goals. These hypotheses then guide the formation of leadership plans and future decision making. Sharing the hypotheses with staff creates a form of transparency, requiring continuous leadership actions that are aligned.

Read "Why Hypotheses Beat Goals" here.

View the 5 minute chats with students here.

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Dr. Amanda Jansen, the author of Rough Draft Math, shares her insights and specific strategies for creating increased student dialogue, thinking, and engagement in math classrooms. What are the benefits of students beginning with the concept of producing a rough draft rather than a finished math answer?

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In this episode of the podcast, Steve relates the need for coaching as the leadership behavior that is required to support educators serving students today.

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Michele Baker, an international educator, shares her experiences with Forest School and its benefits for learners and teachers. She shares several ideas for teachers to implement as schools bring students onsite. Physical, social, emotional, and learning gains can be achieved through an engagement with nature.

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In this episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, the author of Rough Draft Math, Dr. Amanda Jansen, provides insights and strategies for coaching teachers in creating classrooms where students know their thinking is valued and appreciate their classmates thinking. How does humanizing the math classroom extend equity?

View Dr. Jansen's website here. 

Find Dr. Jansen on Twitter: @MandyMathEd

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Social-emotional skills are key to students current and future academic and life success. They have been identified as college and workplace readiness skills. In this podcast, Steve explores five main areas of skills and strategies you can implement at home. The unknowns of the upcoming school year increases the importance of building social-emotional learning opportunities.

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Teaching, modeling, and coaching student “learning how to learn” behaviors is always a good beginning of the year focus. Currently, some classes are starting virtually and some are split between in-school and virtual. With nearly everyone needing to accelerate learning, its critical. Steve provides coaching questions to use to guide teachers in this exploration.

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In this week's episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve looks at how consistency and flexibilty in the classroom can lead to enhanced student learning.  

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In this week's episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve explores making time for educator learning with clinical faculty member at Indiana university, Cassandra Williams.

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