eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Create a culture of agency where both students and teachers are empowered to take risks, be creative, and learn from failures. Make room for educators to share the innovative practices they’ve tried in the classroom and create outlets for peer coaching and collaborative learning among staff.

Schools 297

Schools Failure Feedback Culture 297

eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

Here, five school-level educators (teachers, coaches, and librarians) share their lightbulb moments during the past 12 months—and why they’re excited for the future. One lesson I learned this year, thanks to technology, is that there will be programs and applications you have set aside to learn about on your own time.

Failure 198

Failure Coaching Education Learning 198

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Video coaching is no longer a professional development buzzword or novelty, in part because of the accessibility of devices in today’s world makes it a convenient choice for educators looking to improve their practice. Their collaborative learning is powered by the video evidence of their own classrooms.

Coaching 77

Coaching Questions Feedback Discussions 77

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Bluum’s curriculum innovation for higher education packages allow colleges and universities to integrate hybrid and blended collaborative learning tools and personalized learning experiences with their curriculum. Bluum’s professional development offerings include coaching via onsite, remote, and asynchronous learning options.

Critical Thinking 238

Critical Thinking STEM Curriculum Coaching 238

Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

One-on-one coaching will continue over the phone, he explains, as we are still waiting for his mentee to call. Yet as my second call with Palladino gets delayed, I understand how the complexity of transporting a social, collaborative learning practice to an online environment goes well beyond managing practicalities.

Schools 216

Schools Learning Intellectual Development Coaching 216

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2020

Google for Education recently launched a new certification program to help instructional coaches better support K–12 educators using technology. The Certified Coach program features a free structured curriculum and research-based, five-step coaching model focused on driving meaningful technology use in schools.

Coaching 60

Coaching Classroom Management Collaborative Learning Writing 60

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2020

Google for Education recently launched a new certification program to help instructional coaches better support K–12 educators using technology. The Certified Coach program features a free structured curriculum and research-based, five-step coaching model focused on driving meaningful technology use in schools.

Coaching 60

Coaching Classroom Management Collaborative Learning Writing 60

EdTech Magazine

JULY 27, 2020

Google for Education recently launched a new certification program to help instructional coaches better support K–12 educators using technology. The Certified Coach program features a free structured curriculum and research-based, five-step coaching model focused on driving meaningful technology use in schools.

Coaching 60

Coaching Classroom Management Collaborative Learning Writing 60

EdTech Magazine

MAY 13, 2019

Numerous educators, according to the Corwin/Learning Forward/NEA survey, strongly prefer onsite collaborative learning that takes place during the workday. Instructional Coaches Help Teachers Gain Proficiency and Confidence. Providing guidance from an instructional coach is another beneficial approach.

Coaching 149

Coaching Participation Skills Collaborative Learning 149

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Esme Learning Solutions is banking on artificial intelligence (AI), collaborative learning experiences and relationships with some of the biggest universities in the world to set them apart from the crowd. million Series A that will expand its range of intensive executive-level courses and digital learning tools. “Our

Intelligence 182

Intelligence Coaching Quizzes Online Learning 182

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

These leaders react to failure with coaching and reflective data analysis rather than negative consequences. Many of these leaders choose to pilot tools with small groups of teachers, distill learnings, and then use exemplar artifacts from within the school community to bring new strategies to life for the whole school community.

Achievement 155

Achievement Blended Learning Failure Coaching 155

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Mathematica’s Rapid Cycle Evaluation (RCE) Coach fills the researchers’ needs by helping schools execute low-cost evaluations and make evidence-based decisions. In working with the RCE Coach team, I have seen schools begin to ask more informed questions like “Will usage of X tool under Y conditions lead to Z outcomes?”

Education 141

Education Coaching Essay Evaluation 141

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

To do so, ISTE recommends teachers reach out to their colleagues and local technology coaches for advice. Collaborator: Incorporating projects that facilitate collaboration skills will help students develop new computational ways of thinking, as well as crucial social-emotional learning skills.

Multidisciplinary 168

Multidisciplinary STEM Teachers Teaching Methods 168

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

In mixed-ability groups, peer review is incorporated, allowing students to give and receive feedback, fostering a collaborative learning environment. Writing Support: The teacher provides scaffolding as students begin drafting their essays, offering sentence frames and transitional phrases to help them build coherent paragraphs.

Teaching 395

Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

But they would also receive regular, personalized attention from a coach. To us, exactly what teachers decided to focus on was less important than the collaboration and skills they would pick up along the way. Instead, we relied on activities that were more tailored to participants and helped them collaborate with each other.

Teachers 158

Teachers Coaching Schools Failure 158

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Thus, we are more like coaches than teachers. I learned quickly that just because we are expected to assess something doesn’t automatically mean that we know how to facilitate it. Perhaps the most raw (and effective) lesson I learned came at the end of our first project in my first year as a PBL facilitator.

Grades 163

Grades Failure Ethics Interdisciplinary 163

k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

As a leader, Michelle is committed to mentoring, coaching, and fostering a positive learning environment. I was inspired to become an educator by teachers and sports coaches who guided me throughout my education. One key shift is the increased emphasis on group projects and collaborative learning.

Education 130

Education Culture Critical Thinking Evaluation 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

For example, this year our district launched the Exploration AI program to boost educators’ use and understanding of this emerging technology through self-directed, gamified learning. Courtney Groskin, Instructional Learning Coach, St. Vrain Valley Schools, Longmont, Colo.

Gamification 360

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

One active learning pioneer, Georgetown University Associate Professor Maria Trujillo, illuminates the underlying philosophy of this approach in the words she shares with students at each semester’s start: “I’m not the expert. But I will coach you. I don’t have the answers. That’s where the future of education is going to be.”

Active Learning 164

Active Learning Activities Teaching Multidisciplinary 164

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Often there are lessons to be learned from the very act of teaching, whether it’s an instructor finding new ways to reach—or not reach—students, to watching students grow before your eyes to discovering what makes collaborative learning so successful. There’s something to learn for teachers at all ages.

Teaching 165

Teaching Learning Fairness Middle School 165

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: Mentoring and Classes.

Plagiarism 92

Plagiarism Internet Fairness Instructors 92

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

For example, this year our district launched the Exploration AI program to boost educators’ use and understanding of this emerging technology through self-directed, gamified learning. Courtney Groskin, Instructional Learning Coach, St. Vrain Valley Schools, Longmont, Colo.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Teens enrolled in exam preparation courses (like NEET, JEE, or SAT coaching) can manage their coursework around mock tests and study plans. For socially active teens or those who gain energy from collaborative learning, this can become a challenge over time.

High School 52

High School High School Exams Schools 52

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Collaborative Learning. Districts can start by simplifying their effort through teacher collaboration. Communities like these allow teachers in similar content areas to support one another while learning to implement the new practices as a team. Here are four best practices to push your PD in the right direction: 1.

Coaching 230

Coaching Attention Collaborative Learning Study 230

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

These include self-directed learning time, expeditions and executive coaches. The second point is around customized coaching. If people expect that teachers will just go to a seminar, learn about something, and walk away and then magic will happen—I’m not sure that theory of change works particularly well.

Math 122

Math Schools Coaching Learning 122