k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

I also coach teachers to view themselves not as content deliverers, but as curators of connection—even in digital spaces. Additionally, I emphasize context-sensitive pedagogy, particularly for rural and underserved areas where access and background vary significantly. This kind of structured choice fosters agency and motivation.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2022

Coaching provides teachers with personalized support as they cultivate the mindset, skill set, and tool set needed to navigate the fluid nature of the pandemic. This course offers instructional coaches, administrators, TOSAs, and teacher leaders: A blended learning coaching framework to guide your work. Register now!

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a coaching session last week, it became clear that teachers could use basic templates to help them conceptualize how to take strategies they have used in the past to create lessons that will work in a concurrent classroom (or in an online learning scenario). Welcome Task or Bell Ringer. ” Exit Ticket.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. Gina DiTullio holds a doctorate in Executive Leadership from the St. John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). I encourage teachers to design lessons that allow them to pull feedback into the classroom so that students received focused feedback while they are working.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

My work focuses on supporting leaders, coaches, and teachers in transitioning from traditional teaching practices to blended learning. Inclusion means all students in a learning community have access to resources, opportunities, and a voice in the class dialogue. 3 Valuing Inclusion.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support. Recently, a new kind of tool has emerged. But there are very real concerns about the impact of these tools on children’s literary and literacy experiences.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

Real-time feedback and assessment are way more effective. If teachers spend the majority of their class lecturing or transferring information, there isn’t time for consistent, real-time feedback. As students move through this teacher-led station, I can use this time to provide feedback on my students’ work.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2022

Many people envision artificial intelligence’s (AI) role in education with a sci-fi twist, but in reality, AI is already embedded in promising new tools that address student learning, real-time feedback, and continuous professional development (PD). Using AI Coach platform, teachers connect with Edie, their virtual coach.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. With that feedback, Phipps brought down the ratio of teacher-to-student talk to 50:50. These observations generated by AI can take quick effect.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2024

A network of small public high schools in New York City is exploring whether artificial intelligence can change the way teachers receive feedback about their classroom instruction. The use of AI in teacher coaching brings up similar questions.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

Slide decks, in particular, offer a visually engaging way to present the content, making it more accessible and interesting for students. Additionally, using a digital format creates space for students to document their learning and for teachers to provide feedback. Q3: How Do I Track Student Progress?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

To better support shared learning, I’ve partnered with Learning Innovation Catalyst (LINC) to offer learning modules through LINCspring , their online coaching and professional development platform. In each lesson, or Cycle as they call them on LINCspring, you’ll be introduced to the topic through a “spark” video.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO – Edthena is transforming the video coaching process for educators with the launch of VC3 , the next evolution of the company’s award-winning video coaching platform. The core of the coaching experience happens within the video conversation page.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In my latest book, Balance with Blended Learning , I write about strategies that turn everyday tasks, like giving feedback, assessing student work, and conferencing with students about progress into opportunities for connection. It is ideal if both the teacher and student have access to the planning document during the conference.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

While digital literacy is about accessing and sharing information through digital tools, data literacy is about making sense of the information those tools produce and using it wisely. Students, too, interact with data daily, whether analyzing graphs in math class or using feedback from educational platforms to guide their learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

How are your teachers using the AI Coach platform by Edthena to support their professional growth? What benefits do you see coming from AI coaching for PD? We implemented the AI Coach platform as part of our innovative peer coaching model to further enhance instructional practices.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

When we first began doing video coaching at Brevig Mission School in Northwestern Alaska, I was nervous. Such a thoughtful, respectful back-and-forth only increased the admiration I had for my colleagues, made me more eager to seek their feedback, and made clear the benefits of tapping into our staff’s collective intelligence.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

“As we talked with EmpowerU students, we realized how much they valued the daily support of their EmpowerU coach—and they wanted an integrated way to access their feedback and encouragement. Integrated communication tools create close collaboration between the school team and the EmpowerU coach.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

They conducted research, investigated topics, and accessed online texts, resources, and tools. When coaching teachers in a 1:1 environment where all students have devices, I encourage teachers to balance the online and offline learning activities to give students a much-needed break from the screen.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

NEW YORK — AtomicMind , an education technology company that offers families a boutique coaching experience in the increasingly competitive college admissions landscape, today announced the launch of a unique technology platform. About AtomicMind.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2020

With $250,000 from ECMC Foundation and a matching grant from Strada Education Network, the Emergency Coaching Network will provide up to 5,000 students at participating institutions with support from InsideTrack coaches specially trained to assess and support across a range of challenging situations.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

I also coach teachers to view themselves not as content deliverers, but as curators of connection—even in digital spaces. Additionally, I emphasize context-sensitive pedagogy, particularly for rural and underserved areas where access and background vary significantly. This kind of structured choice fosters agency and motivation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Ed Madison, a media professor and researcher at the UOs School of Journalism and Communication , created Sassy, an online career coach thats been officially adopted by the state of Oregon. Madison said the development team is looking to make Sassy more accessible and useful to students and communities of varying socioeconomic status.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 12, 2025

These models allow teachers to facilitate small group differentiated instruction, give real-time feedback , provide Tier 2 support or enrichment and Tier 3 intervention and mastery , conference with students , or conduct side-by-side assessments. Technology can also support students in becoming more aware of their own growth.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

In that situation, it is still important to have students practice accessing the video directions, playing them, and practicing pausing or restarting the video. Through student feedback, I have improved my stations to help meet individual needs. During her time as an Instructional Coach, Noelle developed resources for Smarter Balanced.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Educators can access the free, on-demand “Lounge Talks” video series to hear about and learn effective strategies for a number of timely topics ranging from professional development to teacher wellness. Effective coaching. Nita Creekmore, founder of Love Teach Bless, shares two important keys to successful coaching. Watch here.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2024

It offers the attention and nurturing that students–especially disadvantaged youth who don’t often have access to high-impact tutoring–fundamentally need to succeed. Research to practice Tutors, coaches, and districts are now broadly opting to have in-school tutoring sessions recorded, transcribed, and analyzed.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2018

As a result of this paradigm shift, communities around the country are demanding a more transparent, equitable, and accessible enrollment process for all families. The right research-based strategies and technology–like observation and feedback using video–can help districts scale PD efforts. Assessing less to learn more.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

We standardized our use of instructional materials and implemented math and literacy coaches at every school. Both of these math programs focus on problem-solving and skills-building in a rigorous but accessible manner, with a blend of direct instruction, structured investigation, and open exploration.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

A grant we secured nearly 5 years ago through the Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Incentive Program provided us access to the ADVANCE feedback ® platform, which we first used for instructional coaching. We hadn’t planned on using video to evaluate our teachers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

It enhances learning experiences with tailored learning paths and immediate feedback, improves accessibility and inclusivity through assistive and adaptive technologies and language translation, and boosts efficiency and administrative support by automating routine tasks and improving data management.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Video coaching with Edthena provides us with a sustainable and scalable professional development model. Teachers videotape themselves and then share it with their colleagues asking for specific feedback. Kristen Koeller, RTI instructional coach, Livermore, Calif. Teacher-recommended PD tools. It’s giving teachers a break.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. As a result, students are equitably receiving the feedback they need, particularly those coming from under-resourced communities or multi-lingual learners who may benefit from additional scaffolding.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Athletes take the lead as captains or student coaches. Its about opening doors, sharing stories, and giving our students access to the kind of real-world advice that can shape their futures. Elmwood supports its teachers through a unique coaching program that encourages peer feedback and shared learning. Whitehouse notes.

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