Category Archives: Co-Teaching

Graze and Tag: The Most Underrated Strategy in Your Co-Teaching Toolkit

It was third period of 11th-grade American Literature. My co-teacher had just introduced the closing image of The Great Gatsby chapter 1, the moment Gatsby stretches his arms toward the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, and I started walking around the room. Two minutes in, I noticed students were paraphrasing the language but missing what the green light was actually doing in the chapter. Without missing a beat, I stepped back to the front, took the marker from my partner, and said, “Hold on. Before we go further, let’s unpack what that green light is doing here.” He moved into the room to circulate.

We had just executed Graze and Tag, and we had not planned for it that morning. That fluidity of this co-teaching strategy is the magic of this strategy. It may also be the most undervalued tool in your co-teaching toolkit.

From the Sidelines to the Shoulder: Using Co-Teaching as the Engine for Instructional Coaching

The Gradual Release of Responsibility (“I do, We do, You do”) is a powerful framework for instructional coaching, and it can be delivered directly through co-teaching strategies. Instead of a coach modeling and then simply observing, the crucial “We do” phase becomes a hands-on, collaborative partnership. This post explores how to use specific co-teaching models as the bridge from “I do” to “You do.” I share a single-session example of supporting a teacher with multilingual learners, moving from my “I do” (model) to our “We do” (“Team Teaching”) and finally to their “You do” (with me in a “One Teach, One Support” role), all within a single lesson.

Webinar – Innovative Co-Teaching: Strategies and Tools for the Modern Classroom

Last week, my co-author Dr. Karge and I had the opportunity to share ideas from our book Co-Teaching Evolved in an edWebinar with educators from around the world. It was exciting to dive into the 11 research-backed co-teaching strategies, from One Teach, One Support to Team Teaching, and show how they can flex across grade levels and content areas. This is a fantastic webinar that provides an overarching themes of co-teaching and how to implement some of its strategies across classrooms and schools.

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”

#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”

CoTeaching Evolved – Released Today

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe On October 11th, 2024, “Co-Teaching Evolved“ hit the shelves, offering a revitalized approach to co-teaching that speaks to today’s educators and students alike. As classrooms grow increasingly diverse and technology continues to reshape education, traditional co-teaching strategies needContinueContinue reading “CoTeaching Evolved – Released Today”

Optimizing Co-Teaching Partnerships for Student Success

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Co-teaching is an expanding opportunity across schools to provide equitable and inclusive classrooms for all students. It can be used in many facets and is employed regularly in schools through many different mechanisms and programs. Generally, many thinkContinueContinue reading “Optimizing Co-Teaching Partnerships for Student Success”

CoTeachingEvolved.com

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe CoteachingEvolved.com is our new website for our upcoming book, “Co-Teaching Evolved: Partnership Strategies for an Equitable, Inclusive, and Tech-Powered Classroom,” which is scheduled for release this fall on October 11th with Solution Tree. It’s designed to help newContinueContinue reading “CoTeachingEvolved.com”

Co-Teaching: Equitable and Inclusive Opportunities for Students

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Co-teaching is an expanding opportunity across schools to provide equitable and inclusive classrooms for all students. It can be used in many facets and is employed regularly in schools through many different mechanisms and programs. Generally, many thinkContinueContinue reading “Co-Teaching: Equitable and Inclusive Opportunities for Students”