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The Station Rotation Model: Arrange Your Furniture to Maximize Focus and Engagement

Catlin Tucker

When I coach teachers using the station rotation model that combines individual and collaborative learning activities both online and offline , we talk about how to arrange the furniture in the room to communicate the type of task students are doing.

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4 Practices for Innovative School Leaders

eSchool News

Develop secure, anonymous lines of communication for feedback. Create a culture of agency where both students and teachers are empowered to take risks, be creative, and learn from failures.

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5 Things Teachers Want from PD, and How Coaching and Collaboration Can Deliver Them—If Implementation Improves

Edsurge

A growing body of research is singling out two kinds of PD with the potential to check all these boxes and impact student achievement: coaching and collaboration. A growing body of research is singling out two kinds of PD with the potential to check all these boxes and impact student achievement: coaching and collaboration.

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Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning

Edsurge

One-on-one coaching will continue over the phone, he explains, as we are still waiting for his mentee to call. Latitude High is already set up on Headrush, a specialized learning management system built for project-based learning. Online learning is showing less lesson disruption than in the classroom.

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K–12 Professional Development Is Critical, So Make It Count

EdTech Magazine

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.

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5 Ways K–12 Teachers Can Take a New Approach to Computational Thinking

EdTech Magazine

To do so, ISTE recommends teachers reach out to their colleagues and local technology coaches for advice. Educators can build students’ self-confidence by maintaining communication and encouraging all students to take some control of their own learning.

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How I Took the Dread Out of Grading—and Replaced It With Fun

Edsurge

Making the transition to Project Based Learning (PBL) was, at first, cathartic; then it was confusing, frustrating, then cathartic again. I became more collaborative as well as a better leader and communicator. Thus, we are more like coaches than teachers. I was instantly charged with a new zeal for my work.

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