📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Yesterday, my friend and colleague, Dr. Drew Hinds, shared a newish framework (2023) for evaluating educational technology and integrating technology in schools with me, and it has been percolating around in my head ever since. It’s called theContinueContinue reading “Thinking Systemically About EdTech Integration in Schools and Districts: A First Look at the VATT Framework”
Author Archives: Matthew Rhoads, Ed.D.
The Heart of Co-Teaching: Moving From Partner to Partnership
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Throughout my years as a special education co-teacher at the high school level, I’ve experienced the full spectrum of partnerships. I recall one year vividly, where my two co-teaching assignments offered a study in contrasts. In one classroom,ContinueContinue reading “The Heart of Co-Teaching: Moving From Partner to Partnership”
Boost Student Learning with Interactive Worked Examples: Thanks to the Canvas Feature in Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude
Picture this: you can provide interactive, step-by-step worked examples for just about anything – math problems, ELA sentence structures, science processes, you name it. And here’s the best part: you absolutely do not need to be a coding expert to pull this off.
Scaling Instructional Coaching: Overcoming Key Challenges
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe While the evidence for instructional coaching’s effectiveness is compelling, translating this potential into widespread impact presents significant challenges, particularly when attempting to scale programs across schools or districts. A primary concern, identified by Kraft et al. (2018), isContinueContinue reading “Scaling Instructional Coaching: Overcoming Key Challenges”
#WhyKnowledgeMatters Podcast Appearance for Co-Teaching Evolved: Co-Teaching Partnerships, Strategies, and EdTech & AI Integrations
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe You may have seen my recent social media posts about the latest #WhyKnowLedgeMatters Podcast episode, and it’s a particularly special one for me! In this installment, I had the pleasure of discussing the very concepts from Dr. BelindaContinueContinue reading “#WhyKnowledgeMatters Podcast Appearance for Co-Teaching Evolved: Co-Teaching Partnerships, Strategies, and EdTech & AI Integrations”
Aspire to Lead Podcast Appearance: Revolutionizing Collaboration in Schools Through Inclusion
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe About a month ago, I had the pleasure of joining the Aspire to Lead podcast to discuss co-teaching and instructional coaching. Episode Description: In this episode of Aspire to Lead, Dr. Matthew Rhoads, author of Co-Teaching Evolved and Crush It from theContinueContinue reading “Aspire to Lead Podcast Appearance: Revolutionizing Collaboration in Schools Through Inclusion”
Digital Learning Today Podcast Appearance: Episode 66 – Crush it From the Start – Top Tips for Instructional Coaches
This podcast episode emphasizes the significance of understanding cognitive science, effective coaching strategies, and the integration of technology in education. The conversation also touches on the challenges faced by coaches and the need for reflection and balance in their professional lives.
AI Agents: The Future of School Leadership
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe The deployment of AI Agents has the potential to greatly impact school leadership. These autonomous software systems, capable of perceiving their environment, making decisions, and executing actions independently, will have the opportunity to redefine the role of educationalContinueContinue reading “AI Agents: The Future of School Leadership”
The Reading Crisis: Where Are We At and Where Do We Go From Here?
As someone who’s spent years working in the worlds of both K-12 and Higher Education, I’ve witnessed a worrying trend that’s been brewing for over two decades amongst students in both K-12 and Higher Education. It’s a crisis that gnaws at the very foundation of learning and critical thinking: a reading crisis.
New Release! Crush it from the Start: 25 Tips for Instructional Coaches and Leaders
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Today marks the release of my new book,a resource designed for instructional coaches, principals, assistant principals, college of education professors, and district office leaders who are committed to transforming teaching and learning in the modern classroom. This bookContinueContinue reading “New Release! Crush it from the Start: 25 Tips for Instructional Coaches and Leaders”