Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a blended learning coach, I spend time in classrooms where teachers use adaptive software to provide students with personalized math practice. Instead, I encourage the teachers I coach to ask students to spend the last 5 minutes in their station writing in an online math journal. mathjournaltemplate.

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Math Coaching Blended Learning Writing 419

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. Begin class with a review activity, writing prompt, feedback form, quick quiz, or formative assessment.

Blended Learning 546

Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

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. If students are working 0n an essay, I dedicate one station each day to providing real-time feedback as they write.

Grades 420

Grades Blended Learning Essay Feedback 420

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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Blended Learning Critical Thinking Communication Participation 535

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The station rotation model is a popular K-12 blended learning model that rotates students through a series of stations or learning activities. When I facilitate workshops on this model or coach teachers using this model, I get a lot of questions. This model, like all blended learning models, is flexible.

Blended Learning 420

Blended Learning Coaching Activities Writing 420

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve coached math teachers who struggle to imagine designing their lessons using this model because the curriculum is so linear. to write a series of blogs about how she is using the Station Rotation Model in her math class. This year, I have decided to use this position to demonstrate dynamic blended learning lessons.

Math 545

Math Blended Learning Questions Coaching 545

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In my role as a blended learning coach, I value clear goals. Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. The outs are grounded in the standards, but standards are daunting in their detail and verbosity.

English 420

English Coaching Language Languages 420

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. He writes, “Teaching others can build our competence. But it’s coaching others that elevates our confidence.” Milkman, Dena M.

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Coaching Motivation Writing Study 195

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

Once teachers have a clear sense of where their students are beginning in relation to specific concepts and skills, they can use the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning models to design lessons that are accessible, inclusive, and equitable. 5 minutes).

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Blended Learning Coaching Writing Knowledge 375

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2019

In my role as a blended learning coach, I work with a lot of teachers who are intrigued by the idea of digital notebooks. If they enjoy writing notes by hand, they can take a photo of those notes and insert them into their digital notebooks. Create artifacts of their learning that can be shared easily with parents.

Blended Learning 419

Blended Learning Coaching English Feedback 419

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It is the educators who understand this truth and design and facilitate learning experiences that align with this truth who have had the most success navigating this challenging moment in education. This choice provides them with agency and recognizes that this time can be used in a variety of ways depending on what individual students need.

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Blended Learning Communication Coaching Questions 531

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.

Teachers 427

Teachers Blended Learning Learning Evaluation 427

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2020

There are a number of options for schools and districts hoping to keep learning as consistent as possible this fall. Thomas Arnett, senior research fellow in education for the Clayton Christensen Institute, writes about the options educators have this fall—in or out of school. Read it now: 5 strategies for independent learning.

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Education Distance Learning Writing Blended Learning 319

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 6, 2020

As a blended learning coach, I spend a lot of time in classrooms observing lessons. I cannot count the number of coaching sessions that have begun with a teacher explaining that they don’t have time to try a new strategy, technology tool, or instructional model. I am a creature of habit and love my routines.

Coaching 453

Coaching Blended Learning Activities Questions 453

Catlin Tucker

JULY 4, 2016

The pacing is the same for everyone; even though, students write and process information at different rates. When teachers are able to balance these two elements of the lesson, they are free to shift from the role of a facilitator or coach supporting students as they work to apply information.

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Lecturing Blended Learning Coaching Questions 392

Catlin Tucker

MAY 24, 2021

Encourage your students to think about what they have learned this year and how the pandemic has changed their lives. Ask them to write a poem (structure and style their choice) and begin with the phrase “Still I rise…” You can have students publish their poems or read them aloud. What was lost?

Activities 542

Activities Feedback Fairness Coaching 542

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

In my work as a blended learning coach, I observe a lot of teachers facilitating blended lessons. For example, if they are writing a formal lab report, they might bring their procedures section. If they are writing a formal essay, they might bring their introduction paragraphs. 5TeacherLed.

Teachers 420

Teachers Essay Feedback Quizzes 420

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2017

It is a blended program with a mix of face-to-face and online learning, which is obviously perfect for this blended learning enthusiast! Ironically, responding to emails when I am not in a mental zone to lesson plan or write allows me to feel productive in these moments.

Coaching 419

Coaching Motivation Attention Blended Learning 419

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. ” As I was responding to Andi’s comment, I realized that I had to write this blog post and share some of the myriad ways that teachers can use a wonky Wednesday. 1 Passion Projects.

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Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Coaching Feedback 336

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 275

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 19, 2024

As an instructional coach and administrator, I regularly observed teachers providing direct instruction using explicit vocabulary routines. Such routines include students saying the word aloud, clapping out syllables, looking up and writing down the definition, and finding examples and non-examples of vocabulary terms.

Writing 374

Writing Coaching Knowledge Activities 374

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Whether working with mixed-ability groups to encourage peer learning and collaboration or with ability-level groups for more focused support, the teachers ensure that each student receives instruction that meets them where they are in their learning journey. Example: Writing Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.1

Teaching 395

Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Ask students to find the mistakes, correct them, and explain (in writing or verbally in a video recording) how they knew the errors were present and how they went about fixing them. formal writing assignment, performance task, project). to explain how it is similar to something else.

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Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 431

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

More than 1,500 teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators participated in professional learning sessions provided by the Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) suite of programs. More importantly, 95% said they’d be able to apply the skills and concepts they’d learned.

English 244

English Blended Learning Language Languages 244

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. Explain to them what their role is in the station.

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Discussions Blended Learning Students Questions 247

eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2020

Read to Lead is a 100% free and proven blended learning solution that leverages game-based learning to help students in grades 5-9 build reading, writing, and leadership skills. Parent Resources: The Read to Lead Parent Hub opens up the program for students learning from home.

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Reading Curriculum Game-Based Learning Middle School 141

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

My newest book, Shift Writing into the Classroom , Dr. Novak and I highlight the myriad benefits of writing across the curriculum and want to support all teachers in moving writing into the classroom, where it can deepen learning and help students develop as expert learners. How did you learn these things?

Math 198

Math Metacognitive Skills Writing Activities 198

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2020

Edcamp events offered teachers a voice in what they would learn. Writing on sticky notes, attendees propose ideas they want to discuss. There is training for blended learning. But nobody prepared teachers for this kind of remote learning” during a pandemic, Weisgrau notes. There is no preset schedule or agenda.

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Blended Learning Coaching Discussions Participation 198

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

And on top of all that, she’s a mentor and coach to new teachers. Propping up her vigorous routine are the poles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the perfect blend of education technology, ensuring that everything keeps spinning along at the right pace and momentum. How does she do it?

Education 200

Education Language Languages Disabilities 200

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

And then there’s Seoul Foreign School in South Korea, which serves about 1,500 students from elementary to high school, and where teachers have been using a hybrid approach for about a week, explains Tanya LeClair, a digital learning coach who is originally from Canada. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M.,

Schools 218

Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

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.

Schools 161

Schools Learning Styles Blended Learning Coaching 161

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.

Teachers 140

Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 140

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

The answers I found were as varied as the people I spoke with: Teach for America alumni with entrepreneurial aspirations, veteran teachers looking to support blended learning initiatives, passionate educators—growing up in failing schools themselves—hoping to increase their impact. Both strongly advise against doing it).

Teaching 137

Teaching Blended Learning Coaching Critical Thinking 137

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. She has over 25 years of education experience.

Schools 195

Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 195

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. Normally you write the program and then design the building.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Study Blended Learning 161

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. Take an English Language Arts classroom, for instance, which covers reading, writing, grammar, and comprehension its core areas of focus.

Metacognitive Skills 166

Metacognitive Skills Learning Assignments Group work 166

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

EdSurge: Talk a little bit about how you came to write the book. That was in 2000 when we started the Highlander Charter School, and it was really fascinating because we were trying to do individual student-learning plans, mentors, and a lot of goal-setting. But ideally, you want a little bit of embedded coaching.

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Learning Schools Coaching Blended Learning 117