Retrieval and Spaced Practice – Key Strategies to Support Multilingual Learners

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe supporting multilingual learners is a top priority for teachers who want to help every student succeed. As language demands grow, teachers are always on the lookout for practical, research-backed strategies to support vocabulary and memory skills. A recentContinueContinue reading “Retrieval and Spaced Practice – Key Strategies to Support Multilingual Learners”

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”

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”

Peleton Pedagogy for Asynchronous Instruction

📬 Stay in the loop Join educators getting weekly insights on AI, co-teaching, and instructional leadership. Subscribe Peleton, the exercise mobile app, excels at offering a gamified, community-centric workout experience. This “Peloton Pedagogy” employs direct modeling and instruction, complemented by uplifting storytelling and consistent positive reinforcement. As students, we value teachers who provide clear, step-by-stepContinueContinue reading “Peleton Pedagogy for Asynchronous Instruction”

Amplifying Multilingual Learners with the Support of AI Tools

Learn more about various AI tools to support teachers in amplifying their instruction for multilingual learners!

Amplifying Special Education Teachers IEP Workflow with AI Tools

We delve deep into how various EdTech and AI tools can be a game-changer for special education teachers managing IEP workflows as well as providing instruction to students. These tools offer efficiency, accuracy, and time-saving benefits, transforming the way educators develop and implement IEPs with the goal of better outcomes for students and a more sustainable workload for teachers. 

The Modern Instructional Coach

As we transition from the broad challenges of modern education to specific strategies, this blog will first delve into the foundational cognitive science principles essential for instructional coaches. Following this, we’ll explore the integration of cutting-edge EdTech tools and AI applications in teaching, culminating in practical approaches for establishing effective classroom routines and behavior management.

Instructional Coaching: Supporting Teachers Integrating Worked Examples and Frontloading to Amplify Instruction

Within classroom instruction, “Worked Examples” and “Frontloading Models” play pivotal roles in enhancing student understanding and reducing cognitive overload when learning content. Let’s delve into what these terms mean and how instructional coaches can help teachers implement them within their classroom instruction.

Why Special Educators Should Be One Role Not Two: Case Manager or Teacher (not both)

Special Education Teachers typically do two jobs in one. It’s time to consider separating two major components of their job into two jobs done separately: teacher and case manager. Let’s dive into each role and then discuss why we need to separate each role.

A Year in Review and the Year 2024 Ahead

This blog post will be a reflective journey through the year 2023, showcasing my key learnings, achievements, and future goals. It will highlight insights from my podcast episodes and blog posts, covering diverse topics in education. The blog will also share my reflections, personal growth, and my ‘OneWord2024’, which symbolizes my focus and vision for the upcoming year. Join me as I explore the intersections of AI, co-teaching, adult education, and more, laying out a roadmap for what’s next in my educational endeavors.