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Want Transformational Teachers? Here’s Why Change Starts With Coaches

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Years before I wrote my book, “Courageous Edventures,” and helped develop an instructional coaching model used in schools across the country, I served as a district leader supporting instructional coaches. And the time they spent with instructional coaches seemed key to moving the needle.

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PRP Group and K20 Connect Partner to Offer Full Suite of Communications Solutions

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Additional services include education strategy, governance, executive coaching, and education marketing. PRP Group delivers comprehensive support through PR strategy and content, crisis communications, media relationsand media coaching—each tailored to guide clients through the unique challenges of the education sector. “In

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#2: 10 education trends for 2018

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Vrain Valley (CO) School District, for example, began using peer coaching to address its teacher and substitute shortage. Instead of hiring substitutes to cover for teachers to attend PD sessions, the district’s teachers began using video to receive instructional coaching and support. Assessing less to learn more.

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8 lessons to help school leaders manage change

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We’re going to have partners and coaches checking in with us about it. Differentiating the professional development and coaching support for educators is just as important as differentiating instruction for students. Let your people know, “We’re going to practice these five things.

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What Schools Miss When They’re Missing Relationship Data

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Moreover, they tell schools nothing about students’ connections with family, friends, coaches, neighbors and the like that make up a young person’s actual network, and often contain valuable assets that schools could tap into. In other words, they rarely reveal the actual relationships and networks at play in students’ lives.

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What Does It Take To Successfully Implement Personalized Learning at Scale?

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It wasn’t about buy-in but instead helping teachers feel comfortable making changes successfully. Change management is crucial to this process. Most importantly, administrators encouraged and rewarded change efforts, supported teachers as they learned from mistakes or challenges and fostered communication and collaboration.

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A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning

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Participating in the creation of a new position, leading the change management process, and having an office (even if it was shared) got me really jazzed about my transition. My vision initially focused mostly on developing strategy for change management. That isn’t how things played out.