eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Differentiated instruction is essential, but time constraints, large class sizes, and varying skill levels make personalized learning difficult. Because Edia has the same lessons and activities built into its system, learning concepts are reinforced for students.

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Coaching Math Students Assignments 271

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. This is because brain-based strategies allow students to analyze, synthesize, and apply information actively during lessons, increasing the transfer of that knowledge to long-term memory.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When I facilitate workshops on this model, I describe it as a sequence of learning activities designed to move students toward a specific learning goal or objective. What learning activities will help them make meaning or progress toward learning objectives? That requires data. When would teacher check-ins be most helpful?

Blended Learning 542

Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Knowledge 542

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). admitting students into a video conferencing session and taking attendance).

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Several of the teachers I coach have asked about strategies they can use to engage students during the asynchronous time, so I wanted to share some reading resources I developed. Teachers can create choice boards for various purposes, including a skill or strategy board. Reading provides a beautiful escape from reality.

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Reading Coaching English Art 545

Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

UDL recognizes that every class comprises a wide range of learners with various needs, skills, experiences, knowledge, and interests. Every student, regardless of variability, deserves the best opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge regardless of the learning landscape. It was an exhausting and often frustrating experience.

Universal Design 545

Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Motivation 545

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While coaching teachers this month, several expressed a desire to include review and practice activities in their station rotation lessons to help students prepare for end-of-the-semester assessments. questions that the teacher can use to create a variety of review activities. Student-created Kahoot! Teachers who love Kahoot!

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Blended Learning Students Exams Study 522

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2017

I see my primary role as two-fold: 1) I’m an architect of learning experiences designing engaging activities and projects so my students can discover and create, and 2) I’m a coach providing regular, real-time feedback as they work. How can I help my students to appreciate the skills they will need when they graduate?

Teaching 420

Teaching Learning Coaching Blended Learning 420

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

I get asked this question frequently as a blended learning coach. Each station rotation is designed to provide a balance of online, offline and teacher-led activities. My online learning activities typically involve the use of short videos, online discussions, student research, podcasts, and various formative assessments.

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Blended Learning Learning History Social Studies 546

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

I host a podcast called The Balance and wrote a book titled Balance with Blended Learning because I see teachers struggling with balance in every coaching and training session I facilitate. They are not passive consumers but rather active participants. Students will develop their metacognitive and self-regulation skills.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Beliefs 521

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2017

It is an umbrella term for the neurologically-based skills involving mental control and self-regulation.”. The skills that comprise executive functioning are not definitively agreed upon by educators and researchers. Guy, and Lauren Kenworthy have identified, through their own research, a proposed list of executive functioning skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I remember when I began my work as a professional developer and coach. Listening as a Learned Skill. I worked on the skill of being an effective group member and continue to do so. They speak to a number of collaborative skills that make a group member effective. More on other skills in future columns.]

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Achievement Skills Coaching Attention 239

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In my role as a technology specialist — or tech coach — at an elementary school, I support teachers of students in pre-K through second grade and I often hear comments like these. When I became a school-based tech coach six years ago, I faced these same struggles. “I don't have time to use technology with my littles.” It makes sense.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

In “ Art-Infused Student Leadership Projects ,” Cheri Sterman, Crayola Education director; Nancy Horvat, Multi-Tier Support Systems specialist, Arts Academy, PA; and Jessica Lura, director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, Bullis Charter School, CA discussed how to develop leadership qualities in students through art activities.

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Art Skills Students Coaching 226

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While reading Adam Grant’s new book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things , I was struck by his distinction between teaching and coaching. But it’s coaching others that elevates our confidence.” The students in the study assumed the role of a peer coach.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Gemini] really empowers the students to make sure that theyre gaining these skills so that they can take them with them to whatever role they end up being, whether thats postsecondary or in the world of work, says teacher Tara Potter. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 201

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In addition to determining where each student is starting in terms of their content knowledge or skills, teachers should collect data during the lesson to gauge what students know. Teachers can design a follow-up activity in which students post comments to each other’s Padlet Wall images, videos, or explanations.

Coaching 419

Coaching Learning Students Knowledge 419

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Engagement Active involvement in learning that is relevant, valuable, and interesting Representation Access to multiple ways to experience or receive information Action and Expression Set goals, monitor and track progress toward goals, engage in metacognitive skill-building through self-assessment and demonstrate knowledge in a variety of ways.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning 545

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 13, 2023

As a speaker, trainer, and coach, I have had the privilege of working with thousands of teachers. In my experience leading the shift to blended learning, the only way to truly engage students in learning is to allow them to actively lead the process, make decisions, and pursue learning through a lens of interest.

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Technology Blended Learning Students Coaching 435

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When I work with elementary teachers, one of the biggest challenges they face is the wide range of reading skills in their classrooms. Most of the teachers I coach at the elementary level are using the Station Rotation Model during their English language block. This allowed students to self-pace through the various activities.

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Coaching English Participation Assignments 403

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. Such tools are typically designed to engage and motivate the child in interacting with stories, but don’t always lead children to improve their reading skills.

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Coaching Reading Motivation Feedback 206

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2022

Throughout this school year, educators, coaches, and school leaders have engaged in virtual professional development and one-on-one coaching sessions to hone their social-emotional learning skills and knowledge to meet the needs of all learners.

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Hybrid Learning Coaching Learning Culture 363

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The playlist model presents a strategy teachers can use to structure learning experiences that are more personalized to the needs of specific learners, provide students with more agency, and frees the teacher to spend time connecting with and coaching learners as they progress through the playlist.

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Blended Learning Learning Coaching Discussions 420

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2018

When I lead blended learning workshops or work as a 1:1 blended learning coach, I field a lot of questions about the design of station rotation lessons. The teacher works with one side of the room, and the other side of the room is engaged in a collaborative small group activity or individual practice online. That is not the case.

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Blended Learning Coaching Questions Activities 419

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” I disagree, especially when it comes to assignments designed to provide students with opportunities to review concepts and practice specific skills. Below is an image depicting a workflow I frequently see when coaching teachers. What did they learn about their skills from assessing their work?

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Teachers Motivation Assignments Students 544

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Most teachers dedicate significant time and energy to their instructor role, explaining complex concepts and processes and modeling specific strategies and skills. I often compare the teacher’s role as facilitator to the work of a coach. The responses always yield the same results.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Instructors 498

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2022

Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) dedicated to transforming the culture of youth sport – and Discovery Education today announce a partnership providing powerful educational tools to equip students with resources that help build life skills and core values for success on and off the field of play.

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Skills Culture Coaching Art 246

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

Such preliminary insights, whether through pre-assessments, diagnostics, or activities aimed at accessing prior knowledge, can illuminate the diverse range of skills, abilities, and needs within a classroom. Teachers can quickly generate a pre-test or quiz using an AI-powered education tool like MagicSchool.ai.

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Blended Learning Coaching Writing Knowledge 375

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

By strategically positioning desks, chairs, and other pieces of furniture, we can create an environment that promotes collaboration, active engagement, and independent thinking. Sitting in rows can minimize distraction and allow students to concentrate on the learning activity without being tempted to socialize or interact with others.

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Motivation Learning Outcomes Communication Coaching 481

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

As students move through a lesson, some acquire information and skills more quickly than others. Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. 3-2-1 Activity : Ask students to complete the following prompts.

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Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 431

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

This partnership gives teachers more time and energy to innovate and personalize learning while providing students with the opportunity to actively drive their own growth. The LINCspring platform offers educators access to coaches, like myself, as well as online templates, tools, and resources that help you implement these new ideas.

Blended Learning 363

Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Coaching 363

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

The number of learning activities and complexity of the playlist will also affect the time needed to complete it. This allows students to work at their own pace and provides them with a range of activities to choose from. The “must-do” activities are critical to mastering grade-level content and skills.

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Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 436

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2023

Over the past months I have had the incredible privilege of spending a lot of time with Kim Cofino and her instructional coaching team at Eduro Learning. Lately I have been leaning into the task of enhancing my instructional coaching knowledge and skillsets, so I signed up for Eduro Learning’s yearlong online course, The Coach.

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Coaching Learning Feedback Participation 143

Catlin Tucker

MAY 28, 2019

As a blended learning coach, I spend a lot of time in classrooms where teachers are experimenting with blended learning models. Too often, when I enter classrooms using the Station Rotation Model, I see the same types of activities happening at each station. Begin making a list of possible station activities using the template below.

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Blended Learning Coaching STEM Activities 408

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills. Its active, collaborative, and forward-looking. They begin tackling real problems, building research skills, and learning how to think for themselves. Athletes take the lead as captains or student coaches. Elmwood doesnt toss out tradition; it builds on it. The result?

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Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Art 222

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2018

The term “blended learning” is an umbrella that encompasses many different models that combine active, engaged learning online with active, engage learning offline. Instead, an entire class can rotation between online and offline activities together in a single space.

Blended Learning 378

Blended Learning Mobile Devices Learning Coaching 378

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Below are suggestions I use in coaching sessions to help teachers prepare for, facilitate, and wrap up synchronous online discussions to increase student engagement in and ownership of the conversations. Teachers may want to take an active role in muting and unmuting students to ensure that they do not talk over or interrupt each other.

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Discussions Participation Questions Assignments 546