Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 30, 2024

Today: Mentoring and Coaching Tech coaching/mentoring is available from experts who work with you via email or virtual meetings to prepare lesson plans, teach to standards, integrate tech into core classroom time. Note: If your District has purchased a license, you get some coaching for free. How do you create a Curriculum Map?

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using NotebookLM and Gemini for curriculum review and district guidance. CPS staff are creating Gems (custom AI experts in Google Gemini) when they upload the district’s curriculum development evidence guides and rubrics.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

BOSTON — Adaptive learning company HMH today announced the launch of HMH Coachly , an innovative service that provides educators with unlimited access to dedicated instructional coaches. Coaches offer strategies to teachers at all stages in their professional and implementation journey, ensuring their success every step of the way.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 1, 2022

August 2-7th: Coaching or Mentoring. You and colleagues are expected to create a Curriculum Map. More and more teachers–both new and experienced–are looking for coaching or mentoring to fill gaps in their learning, keep up to date on the latest teaching strategies, and solve problems they didn’t expect.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Today: Mentoring and Coaching Tech coaching/mentoring is available from experts who work with you via email or virtual meetings to prepare lesson plans, teach to standards, integrate tech into core classroom time. Note: If your District has purchased a license, you get some coaching for free. How do you create a Curriculum Map?

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support. Contrary to these findings, AI-powered reading coaches seem designed to prioritize encouraging external motivation.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

As we prepare for the coming school year, the curriculum and learning outcomes for students will remain unchanged, but the strategies to master them will change dramatically due to COVID-19’s impact on schools.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Last week in Palm Springs, I had the pleasure of coaching a 9th-grade math teacher. When I coach math teachers using the station rotation model, I suggest that they think about the whole week instead of focusing myopically on a single lesson. Math instruction tends to be linear with each lesson building on the one before.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a coaching session last week, it became clear that teachers could use basic templates to help them conceptualize how to take strategies they have used in the past to create lessons that will work in a concurrent classroom (or in an online learning scenario).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), or as school PD. If you’re looking for tech tools associated with the Structured Learning K-8 curriculum, click here. Today: Classes. Ask a Tech Teacher offers a variety of classes throughout the year. College credit (MTI 562).

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

We are called to design and deliver curriculum and instruction that engages learners in face-to-face settings, during hybrid instruction, and when learning is remote, and back again. Moving forward, Katie and I want teachers to have a skill set nimble enough to navigate any teaching and learning landscape.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. While coaching a teacher in Palm Springs, I developed a digital notebook using Google Slides that teachers can use to facilitate a book club or literature circle unit. .” It’s the book that grabs them and pulls them into the story.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I also coach teachers who teach traditional 50-minute classes and they have a four station two-day rotation. I’m barely getting through all of the curriculum.” This should happen in the classroom where the teacher can act as a coach. Below is an example of a station rotation lesson for my 9th and 10th English class.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 13, 2023

As a speaker, trainer, and coach, I have had the privilege of working with thousands of teachers. Unfortunately, a lack of trust often leads teachers to retain control over the curriculum, pacing, and class management. There is a recurring issue that needs to be addressed–the reluctance to relinquish control to students.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

Instead of working from a curriculum that feels disconnected from life beyond the classroom, a project-based approach is intellectually challenging and allows students to make connections between the curriculum and real-world issues.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 9, 2019

In a coaching session last month, I had a teacher ask me how to create a final exam that complements a standards-based approach to assessing students. .” I never had a clear sense of what content would appear on the final. My suggestion was to create a personalized final exam.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum? I get asked this question frequently as a blended learning coach. My answer is a resounding “Yes!” In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

“As we talked with EmpowerU students, we realized how much they valued the daily support of their EmpowerU coach—and they wanted an integrated way to access their feedback and encouragement. Integrated communication tools create close collaboration between the school team and the EmpowerU coach. Our new platform does just that.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2021

We are no stranger to those questions at NASEF and often talk with parents, educators, and students about the benefits of scholastic esports and the inclusion of video games into school curriculums. At Boise State , Doc Haskell, Clinical Associate Professor and Head Coach, has a blossoming esports program for students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team has ideas on how to incorporate giving into your STEM curriculum: Incorporating Monthly Giving Projects into STEM Curriculum: Inspiring the Next Generation of Philanthropists STEM equips students with critical thinking, problem-solving, and innovative skills vital for their future careers. Sound interesting?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For example, I was asked to demonstrate a model lesson during a district professional development day and represented my subject and grade level on a curriculum vertical alignment committee. Their primary role is to support the coach in diffusing innovative instructional practices across the campus.

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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. Can the Station Rotation Model work in a math class? I get this question a lot.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

ISTELive 23 lands in Philadelphia on June 25, and the annual conference promises to be packed with content for administrators, curriculum directors, classroom teachers, and everyone in between. Class Visits: A PD Model for Teachers Growing Teachers Instructional coaches are frequently asked, “What is everyone else doing in their classrooms?”

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

To close achievement gaps that have disproportionately affected our students of color, we knew we needed to improve instruction and the quality of our curriculum materials. We standardized our use of instructional materials and implemented math and literacy coaches at every school. The training was organized by Leading Educators.

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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. This job is tough.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 24, 2021

You can also gather some feedback about instructional strategies, class routines, the curriculum, projects, and technology tools. As I was coaching a teacher last week, it occurred to me that these thinking routines could be used to encourage students to consider what they learned this year and how it has impacted them (e.g.,

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2018

When I work with teachers, they are excited about the potential benefits of using this model; however, most of the curriculum that school districts purchase is not presented in this way. Provide opportunities to conference with students to review their work, discuss learning goals, and conduct side-by-side assessments.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

The Academy Program, on the other hand, serves students who benefit from a highly customized curriculum with a strong emphasis on life skills, vocational training, and independent living. To address this, AEF integrates executive functioning coaching into daily instruction.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

And when you combine strong values with smart tech and a global curriculum, you get more than a good education. Athletes take the lead as captains or student coaches. From Prekindergarten to Grade 12, students learn social-emotional skills through a carefully structured curriculum. At Elmwood, learning is never static.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To help teachers recognize, respond to and prevent bullying toward these students, researchers at the University of Missouri collaborated to develop an evidence-based, online professional development curriculum. If I can help them feel better about themselves by emphasizing what makes them great, that is my ultimate goal.”

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

She then worked as an Instructional Coach for seven years, training and coaching secondary teachers in student engagement, standard-based strategies, curriculum development, and blended learning. During her time as an Instructional Coach, Noelle developed resources for Smarter Balanced.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Ed Madison, a media professor and researcher at the UOs School of Journalism and Communication , created Sassy, an online career coach thats been officially adopted by the state of Oregon. Knapp plans to integrate Sassy into his future curriculum to help middle school students get a jump-start on career planning.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Instead of focusing myopically on our role as “instructor” transferring information, I’d love to see teachers embrace their role as a coach in the classroom, helping students to develop specific skills. Teachers will have more success in engaging students if they build “choice and voice” into the curriculum.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

iMentor, along with a growing supply of online and virtual college access programs, provides a platform and curriculum that blends virtual and face-to-face mentoring. For example, iMentor’s curriculum provides recommendations and specific prompts for what each party should be sharing and doing at each point in its scope and sequence.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

In 1995, I became the Educational Technology Coach for the Verona Area High School. As the Educational Technology Coach, I support the classroom teachers I serve by modeling innovative technology strategies, co-planning lessons, co-teaching, curating research and resources, analyzing student usage data, and many other strategies.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We take a comprehensive approach beginning with our foundational curriculum. It is imperative that all of our teachers, instructional coaches , and administrators share a common language and instructional practices to support all students in the area of literacy. We have a number of students with gaps in literacy.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

According to conversations in a community of practice that I convene with state education agency literacy leaders, a major focus will be building capacity for coaches to become the conduit between building knowledge and implementing practices aligned to the science of reading. The science of reading is not a set of practices.

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