Catlin Tucker

MARCH 17, 2020

Even though they are not going to school, I want them to continue learning. It also isn’t clear to me how much work their teachers will assign during this school closure. I look forward to leveraging the strategies and tools I use in my work as a blended learning coach to engage my kids in hands-on learning activities at home.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I explain that I use blended learning models, like Station Rotation and Whole Class Rotation, to create the time and space needed to move assessment into the classroom. I also coach teachers who teach traditional 50-minute classes and they have a four station two-day rotation. Click To Tweet.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2023

As a classroom teacher, instructional coach, and now site administrator, I have curated several easy-to-implement tips to help teachers effectively implement and manage the station rotation model with even the most energetic classes. These numbers corresponded with the seat numbers at the student-led independent and collaborative stations.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In the early days of my transition to blended learning, I had one Chromebook, which I received after writing a Donor’s Choose project. It is a series of stations, or learning activities, that students rotate through. To be considered a blended learning model, at least one station must be an online learning station.

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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. Blended learning is the combination of active, engaged learning online and offline. Teacher-centered instruction vs. Student-centered blended learning.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Teachers juggling the concurrent classroom with some students physically attending class and others joining remotely via video conferencing are trying to balance the demands of teaching in two learning landscapes simultaneously. The lesson template below has five sections.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2019

When I facilitate training sessions or coach teachers, I encourage them to shift feedback and assessment into the classroom where student progress can be an ongoing conversation. Too often, teachers assign work that students complete in isolation. How is one teacher supposed to grade all of the work that 150+ students complete?

Grades 419

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

Through our online series, we explored the power of universally designed blended learning models to achieve deeper learning outcomes. Our discussions culminated in selecting specific challenges to explore in-depth, with the goal of prototyping solutions at the Learning Leaders Summit in Dubai.

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Blended Learning Universal Design Motivation Learning 458

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

How K–12 Schools Can Get Started with Blended Learning. Blended learning classrooms often move seamlessly between online and offline activities, so don’t cancel those copier maintenance contracts quite yet. Blended learning has helped me become a more effective and efficient educator. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

discussion of a text or collaborative assignment), I suggest teachers begin with a fun warm-up question to break the ice. #3 I learned about it when I attended the Deeper Learning Conference at High Tech High several years ago. I rely on the dialogic interview format as a blended learning coach.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

In my Art of Blended Learning Online Course this week, we continued our work on the playlist model. Finally, the “aspire-to-do” activities are designed to extend the learning and challenge students. Does your school have a team of teachers interested in blended learning?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

I point to each station’s location and review the assigned seating chart. Note: I don’t usually assign seats at the independent teacher-led station because that is where I will be.) Because students do not need to get out any materials when they transition, I set the transition timer to 20 seconds.

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Coaching Blended Learning Assignments Middle School 336

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

How can we provide PLCs with a clear structure to guide their work while allowing them the autonomy and agency to personalize their learning? In the last year, I’ve encouraged school leaders, coaches, and teachers to consider using the 5Es instructional model to guide their work in PLCs. Elaborate: Apply Your Learning.

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Teachers Blended Learning Learning Evaluation 425

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

2 Build a Learning Community Both On and Offline. I remind the teachers I coach that students will only lean into learning if they feel comfortable and safe in our classrooms. It is critical that we proactively develop a learning community in our physical and online spaces. Blended Learning: 8 Respectful Routines. #4

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Metacognitive Skills Schools Blended Learning Evaluation 366

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

In my work as a blended learning coach, I observe a lot of teachers facilitating blended lessons. If teachers are assigning homework, it would be more powerful to use that practice to encourage students to reflect on their progress and identify the gaps in their understanding of concepts and skills. 5TeacherLed.

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Teachers Essay Feedback Quizzes 420

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Most of the schools where I coach have a wonky Wednesday schedule that I have to navigate with teachers when we co-lesson plan together. I also dedicate a chapter in my new book Balance with Blended Learning to metacognition. #3 The class periods on Wednesday are markedly shorter than classes on a regular day.

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Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Coaching Feedback 336

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2020

Read it now: The blended learning models that can help schools reopen. States are creating plans for fall as many wonder how COVID-19 has impacted learning as we know it. eSN managing editor Laura Ascione gives five predictions for the post-COVID learning. Read it now: 5 strategies for independent learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

“MobyMax … finds the holes in my students’ academic experience and fills them, contributing to a rock-solid foundation,” said Tim Swanson, a second-grade teacher who is also the school’s technology coach. MobyMax is an integrated personalized and blended learning curriculum for K-8 students.

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Curriculum Skills Elementary School Elementary School 274

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 3, 2024

Even though we are teachers, it doesn’t mean we stop learning, growing, and improving and their feedback can help us improve our practice. For example, I remember early in my career when I would collect feedback at the end of each semester, my students almost unanimously told me to stop assigning annotations each night with the reading.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Video coaching with Edthena provides us with a sustainable and scalable professional development model. Being able to leave timestamped comments has allowed us as coaches to create conversations at the specific point in time that we want the teacher to reflect on. Kristen Koeller, RTI instructional coach, Livermore, Calif.

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Coaching Elementary School Elementary School Feedback 279

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. In other words, how students are learning and how they can improve.

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Blended Learning Middle School Middle School Motivation 218

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

formal writing assignment, performance task, project). Teachers should pair AI feedback sessions with a reflection tool to help students capture what they learned from AI and reflect on what that feedback tells them about their areas of strength and areas in need of improvement or development.

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Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 428

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 19, 2024

As an instructional coach and administrator, I regularly observed teachers providing direct instruction using explicit vocabulary routines. You can also use a “would you rather” strategy to give students a meaningful choice for this assignment. Would you rather do this online or offline?

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Writing Coaching Knowledge Activities 372

Catlin Tucker

JULY 17, 2023

However, the goal of the station rotation model, specifically and blended learning more generally, is to provide students with opportunities for agency , including selecting the questions they choose to answer and working at their own pace. This student encourages others to share and helps to keep the group on task.

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Discussions Blended Learning Students Questions 246

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So Boyle, who is a secondary school principal at Dalian American International School, located on China’s northeastern coast, let teachers email assignments during the first few weeks out and skip most instruction. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., I’m not being rude. I’m trying to build a skill here.”

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Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

Twenty-three percent of surveyed teachers in virtual classes use simulations, 26 percent of surveyed teachers who have implemented a flipped learning model use them, and 17 percent of surveyed teachers who use a blended learning model use simulations.

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Game-Based Learning Teachers Internet Blended Learning 189

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? The Flex blended-learning model, which pairs AI-powered apps with group discussions, real-world projects, individual coaching from guides, and other student experiences, attracts teachers who see its value and want its benefits.

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Teachers Knowledge Lecturing Blended Learning 165

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

From providing in-person opportunities through field trips, drop-in centers, and clubs to working closely with parents and learning coaches, online educators focus their efforts on encouraging engagement, ensuring participation, and inspiring learning. Why should students be penalized for moving quickly through an assignment?

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

The program used Brightspace to deliver blended learning courses designed with experiential learning elements that allowed them to be offered with significant cost savings. Robert McClure, Chairman of Gwinnett County Board of Education.

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Online Learning Quizzes eLearning Learning 139

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2018

As an instructional coach at Fairbanks Middle School in Milford Center, Ohio, I have been a core part of charting a new path for PD that uses a blended model of professional learning. We do set some parameters for the assignments. Far too often, strategies and tools are discussed once, and then never again.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Differentiation and personalization can occur through teacher instruction, who can provide varying levels of support and hands-on coaching, before letting students do independent practice. In the past, when I returned assignments to them with my feedback, the work often went unread by students.

Metacognitive Skills 165

Metacognitive Skills Learning Assignments Group work 165

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

Student engagement is key to energizing learning outcomes, and universities have been investing heavily in building multi-purpose spaces that provide opportunities for students to imagine, prototype, fail and retool their way to profound learning experiences. Our curriculum is entirely focused on startups and creation of businesses.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Study Blended Learning 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

We wanted to give teachers an opportunity to meet other teachers and then do meaningful work,” says Becca Garrison, an instructional technology coach at Educate LLC. One of the topics that were really important to educators was ‘self-directed learning,’” says Garrison.

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Feedback Essay Blended Learning Coaching 129

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

Doctor Ramirez earned her doctorate in educational leadership from USC with a focus on instructional coaching and technology integration. She has worked with almost every age level of student in a variety of capacities as a teacher, as a coach. We followed the coaching cycle. And the school district’s hiring them.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

When coaching teachers, I encourage them to consider a math journal at that offline station. Review and practice should be opportunities for students to learn from their mistakes. Students should not be penalized for having incorrect answers on assignments designed to prepare them for an assessment.

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Math Metacognitive Skills Writing Activities 198

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

When I was in the classroom—I am now a numeracy support coach for the board, and by the way still use tech when in classrooms—I used tech a lot. Brightspace Assignment Release Conditions I use Read&Write for Chrome to translate text to speech and to note feedback at intervals throughout my students’ writing process.

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Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 132

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

ONE YEAR LATER—Greg Esteves shares lessons learned from ELM. With Hapara Learning Suite's Workspace, educators can: Build dynamic digital learning experiences. Share resources, assignments and more. Easily differentiate learning for groups of learners.

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