Have you heard of the latest idea by Jim Knight that is sparking some amazing collaboration of instructional coaches all over the world in response to educator needs in remote learning? It all started with a tweet and now our own Sibme coach, Kathy Perret, is one of the primary planners of this worldwide PLN focused on creating a Remote Learning Playbook educators.

How effective is your feedback?  Does it prompt reflection? Providing feedback is one of the fundamental skills of a coach. Special guest and Sibme's Virtual Coaching head honcho and Director of Virtual Learning, Allyson Burnett shares her favorite 4 stems for feedback and how you can look at the feedback you give to teachers.

Do you know how to effectively measure #studentengagement? What about measuring engagement with #remote or #athomelearning? In episode we bring back Sibme coach, Alice Shull, for part 4 of our series on engagement. Alice and Cory talk about the types of #engagement, the value of each, and share some of our favorite tools from Jim Knight's Engagement Toolkit with ideas for measuring engagement in both remote and face-to-face learning environments.

As we continue remote learning, we've received several questions for advice and resources on supporting exceptional learners virtually. Whether you're a teacher designing remote instruction and supports or parent at home working side-by-side with your learner, Cory and guest coach Colina Poullard have some basic tips and e-learning resources for you! Cory and Colina are not only certified in special education, they are both parents of their own exceptional learners.

Are you an instructional coach trying to support your teachers as they implement remote learning? We've been getting a lot of questions about how to coach virtually and how to support teachers teaching remotely the past few weeks so we thought it'd be a great topic for today's show.  We're excited to bring back guest coach and Sibme's Chief Operating Officer, TJ Hoffman, to chat with Cory about strategies for both remote coaching and remote teaching.

Wait time, a key ingredient in the secret sauce of student engagement, is often easier said than done. In this 3rd installment of our series on Coaching for Engagement with Alice Shull, Cory and Alice share some key strategies for wait time and how you can practice wait time in your remote learning environment.

For the past few months, Amy Youngblood has been sharing #MLRS Math Language Routines with us as a way to support students' mathematical language development. In this final episode of the four-part series, Amy and Cory model MLR #4 with the  Information Gap routine–a simple way to transform math word problems and Cory's favorite of the routine's Amy has introduced to date! A must watch for coaches and teachers! And if you're wondering how you can do this with your remote classroom, simply pair students up in discussion chats for asynchronous work or use the Zoom Breakout Rooms feature when live. Students can also use another video call tool to collaborate with each other on their Info gap!

If you've found yourself working remotely this week, or facing this as a reality in the very near future, you'll likely be using video to collaborate with and support your colleagues. Here at Sibme this is everyday life for us and we're here to share a few tips. In this special episode, Cory welcomes her colleagues Jennie and Lindsey on to talk how to put your best foot forward when using video from home (with kids at home, too!) for learning and collaboration "at" work in the wake of COVID-19.

The research is undeniable, receiving coaching can make an impact. Coaches play a vital role in supporting and leading the learning in their organization. But what about their own learning? Often coaches are in the position because they are self starters and have had success in the classroom, yet in many cases they never received coaching themselves. Our featured guest this week, Kathy Perret believes that instructional coaches should be the most coached person in the building. She shares what coaching for a coach looks like and how video can enhance the process.

In this episode, we continue our series for Coaching on Engagement with Alice Shull, an educator with 42 years of experience and one of our TOP Virtual Coaches. Alice shares a Teach like a Champion strategies called Cold Call with us as we look at video of a high school classroom.