Four planning decisions grounded in cognitive science: Cut extraneous load, Match the visual to the meaning, Show through faded worked examples, and Again through formative checks with spacing and interleaving. With walkthrough look-fors for coaches and worked examples across science, ELA, and math.
Category Archives: Instructional Coaching & Leadership
Instructional Coaches Need to Know How Memory Works – And It’s Not a Muscle
I often hear memory described as a muscle—something that gets stronger the more you “work it out.” While the sentiment is well-intentioned, it’s a misleading metaphor. Our memory isn’t a single entity that we can simply beef up through brute force. It’s a complex system, and for instructional coaches, understanding its nuances is a game-changer for helping teachers truly embed new and refined strategies into their practice as well as teach the teachers we are coaching how learning happens.
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”
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.
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”
The Power of Rehearsal: The Most Overlooked Step in Instructional Coaching
Instructional coaching is a powerful tool for transforming teaching and learning, but one of its most underutilized strategies within instructional coaching is lesson rehearsal by the teaching being coached—a safe, structured opportunity for teachers to practice new instructional strategies before implementing them in the classroom. Check out how this critical element of instructional coaching can be implemented and be apart of your coaching toolkit and practice.
Navigating Education – The Podcast: Ep 77 – The Diffusion of Innovation and Instructional Coaching
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation theory is a compelling framework for understanding how new ideas and technologies spread through organizational cultures. Essentially, it outlines a process where innovations move through a series of adopter categories,from innovators to laggards,eachContinueContinue reading “Navigating Education – The Podcast: Ep 77 – The Diffusion of Innovation and Instructional Coaching”
Launch of 25 Tips for Coaches Website
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe I am thrilled to officially launch a new website, 25tipsforcoaches.com, as a hub for all things instructional coaching and leadership. This website has been designed with a dual purpose: to celebrate and share insights from my upcoming book,ContinueContinue reading “Launch of 25 Tips for Coaches Website”
Proving Our Impact: How Instructional Coaches Can Use Regression Analysis to Demonstrate Their Value
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Recently, my PLN colleague Roxi Thompson posed some compelling questions on LinkedIn: How do you collect data to demonstrate the impact of your coaching program? What methods have you found effective, especially in showing improvement in areas likeContinueContinue reading “Proving Our Impact: How Instructional Coaches Can Use Regression Analysis to Demonstrate Their Value”
Week of AI Conference Presentation: Revolutionize Your Data-Driven Decision-Making with AI Tools
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe On May 13th, 2024, I had the opportunity to present at the #WeekofAI conference. My presentation focused on Data-Driven Decision-Making Using AI Tools to support data-driven decision-making in education in classroom, school, and district contexts. The AI toolsContinueContinue reading “Week of AI Conference Presentation: Revolutionize Your Data-Driven Decision-Making with AI Tools”