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.
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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”
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.
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”
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.
The Death of the LMS in Higher Ed: How AI Agents May Make the Traditional LMS Learning Obsolete in the Near Future
📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe The rise of AI-powered agents like Operator (and many more) will drastically reshape how higher education delivers courses online, making traditional Learning Management Systems (LMS) increasingly irrelevant if safeguards are not created. As students gain access to AIContinueContinue reading “The Death of the LMS in Higher Ed: How AI Agents May Make the Traditional LMS Learning Obsolete in the Near Future”
Instructional Coaching Through Co-Teaching
Co-teaching isn’t an abstract concept for instructional coaching—it’s the practical reality that can be done to amplify your instructional coaching program.
Navigating Education – The Podcast: Ep 78 – Formative Assessment is One of the Most Impactful Strategies You Can Use In Your Instruction
Formative assessment is one of the most impactful strategies K-20 teachers can use in their instruction. It helps us determine where our students are at and how they are performing in real time. Here are my thoughts about how you can use formative assessment with and without EdTech as well as implementing it at strategic points throughout your lesson to get the most out of it to support your students.