Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2022

Coaching provides teachers with personalized support as they cultivate the mindset, skill set, and tool set needed to navigate the fluid nature of the pandemic. This course offers instructional coaches, administrators, TOSAs, and teacher leaders: A blended learning coaching framework to guide your work. Register now!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2023

Sibme — Research reinforces the effectiveness of video coaching in education, and a recent study from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) noted that at least 70% of teachers that received feedback via video coaching learned specific strategies that they could use in their classrooms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

One approach that schools can use to support teachers at all levels is providing collaborative, subject-specific coaching. In many instructional coaching models, the line between mentorship and evaluation is blurred, with coaches serving as pseudo-administrators. My growth wasn’t gauged by a rubric on a clipboard.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2020

I had the pleasure of chatting with Linwood Paul, an executive coach, for an episode of my podcast, The Balance. As teachers think about how to create routines for themselves and their students online, I hope they will embrace their many roles from the architect of learning experiences to the coach supporting individual skill development.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s a way to structure learning experiences that are more personalized to the needs of specific learners, provide students with more agency and autonomy, and free teachers to spend time connecting with and coaching learners as they progress through the playlist. The spring cohort runs from March 7-May 9.

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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). Present-Pause-Discuss.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

I get asked this question frequently as a blended learning coach. My online learning activities typically involve the use of short videos, online discussions, student research, podcasts, and various formative assessments. Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

How are your teachers using the AI Coach platform by Edthena to support their professional growth? What benefits do you see coming from AI coaching for PD? We implemented the AI Coach platform as part of our innovative peer coaching model to further enhance instructional practices.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

My suggestion when coaching teachers is to think about their online lessons through the lens of these building blocks. Can teachers pair those resources with an online discussion prompt to encourage conversation and collaborative meaning-making? Building Blocks of a Lesson. Do students need to engage with texts or podcasts?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of The Balance , I talk with Lisa Highfill , a mother, educator, instructional coach, and co-author of The HyperDoc Handbook. She was a classroom teacher for over twenty years and is currently a technology integration coach in the Pleasanton Unified School District.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

We also discussed the challenges of building community when learning is happening in part, or exclusively, online. If students are not participating in discussion or group work in breakout rooms, that may indicate that they are not feeling comfortable asserting themselves online. 3 Go Deeper with a Dialogic Interview Format.

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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. How could I get the students to have discussions about mathematical concepts? Can the Station Rotation Model work in a math class? I get this question a lot.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

I often compare the teacher’s role as facilitator to the work of a coach. Coaches watch players as they practice and provide specific, actionable feedback to support their development. A more strategic approach to instruction frees teachers to invest more time and energy in their role as facilitators of learning.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Teachers can use observations with a checklist when students are: Engaged in group activities or discussions to monitor individual participation and contributions. Teachers might include the following items on a checklist: Participation: Is the student actively engaged in the activity/discussion?

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2022

They also offer a safe space for children where they are supported by coaches who are trusted adults they can lean on for advice and guidance if they are experiencing mental health issues. In the past few years, we’ve seen a few examples of youth who have reached out to coaches when they struggled with mental health issues.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s one thing to attend a professional learning or instructional coaching session—but taking what you’ve learned and putting it into action is another. With this in mind, I compiled the following tips for getting the most out of professional learning and coaching sessions. #1 1 Embrace the experience.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

To better support shared learning, I’ve partnered with Learning Innovation Catalyst (LINC) to offer learning modules through LINCspring , their online coaching and professional development platform.

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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. I am a creature of habit and love my routines.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The playlist model presents a strategy teachers can use to structure learning experiences that are more personalized to the needs of specific learners, provide students with more agency, and frees the teacher to spend time connecting with and coaching learners as they progress through the playlist.

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Blended Learning Learning Coaching Discussions 420

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

My work focuses on supporting leaders, coaches, and teachers in transitioning from traditional teaching practices to blended learning. A friend recommended Adam Grant’s podcast “ Is it safe to speak up at work ?” Blended learning is the combination of active, engaged learning online and offline. What did you learn?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

After students have completed moving through the station rotation, I post these self-reflection questions for students to think about and discuss with a partner: On a scale of 1-5 (five being the highest), how well do you think the class did when moving from station to station? You will see improvement between each practice round.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Teachers can use this data to design subsequent lessons to ensure individual students get exactly what they need in terms of follow up instruction, coaching, scaffolds, and personalized practice. When I was coaching a second-grade teacher, we used FlipGrid to capture a sample of each student reading to assess their fluency.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 24, 2019

When coaching a group of teachers this month, we created a transitional language lockbox challenge. I also recommend that teachers give students the questions first and require that they discuss them and agree on their answers before they open their computers and attempt to unlock the Google Form lockbox. Kids enjoy games!

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

With the speed dating set up, the students can bounce questions off of one another and engage in discussion. The students collaborate with their partners to determine where the errors are in the problems and discuss the best strategy for fixing them. For this station, the desks are set up to resemble speed dating.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When coaching teachers in a 1:1 environment where all students have devices, I encourage teachers to balance the online and offline learning activities to give students a much-needed break from the screen. Communication Asynchronous online discussions in your learning management system so everyone gets to participate in the class dialogue.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

If they want to discuss their goals and progress, they will need their goal-setting sheet. If they request a 1:1 coaching session, they should have work they are struggling with or questions about specific content or skills they want to focus on. Then students prepare for their conference.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2020

As an implementation coach and educational specialist for a reading program, we would like to share two simple tips no matter what area of reading your student struggles with: finding effective resources and strategies, and building background knowledge. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success.

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Distance Learning Learning Coaching Languages 363

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Steve Ventura,founder of Advanced Collaborative Solutions and author of “Engaged Instruction: Thriving Classrooms in the Age of Common Core,” discusses how teachers can grow through collaborative professional learning. Effective coaching. Nita Creekmore, founder of Love Teach Bless, shares two important keys to successful coaching.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This includes the use of AI-powered teacher coaching via the AI Coach by Edthena platform. With the platform, teachers like Schlagel engage in personalized coaching cycles to further their development. This was my first real introduction to video coaching. How does the AI coaching process work?

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2018

Provide opportunities to conference with students to review their work, discuss learning goals, and conduct side-by-side assessments. So my job as a blended learning coach is to help teachers take what they have and create dynamic blended lessons that weave together online and offline elements.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As an educator with 16 years of teaching experience, I have dedicated the last several years to training, coaching, and supporting teachers. We discuss the need to model a growth mindset for our students and what is needed to cultivate classrooms where we celebrate experimentation, risk-taking, and failing forward.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It explains SEO, discusses the importance of keywords and backlinks, and more. . Here, we are going to discuss what is SEO, how it can be used in the online education industry, and how SEO campaign is done. SEO Tips for Online Education | Reach Students With SEO. But how to secure a top spot? Well, the answer is SEO. What is SEO?

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2022

Before jumping into the competitive aspects of esports and gaming, we spent three weeks discussing the importance of positive mental health and the negative effects associated with some online gaming cultures. At first, I provided no coaching or guidance, but instead allowed students just to play.

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Education Coaching 342

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

As pictured in the image below, stations can be used to engage students in small group discussions (face-to-face or online) and encourage collaboration by presenting the group with a shared task or challenge. Building this into a station rotation lesson, as pictured above, it one strategy. Recruiting Interest.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif., Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

We standardized our use of instructional materials and implemented math and literacy coaches at every school. Our teacher retention rates have improved, students are engaged in learning, and lessons are more active and collaborative, with students leading much of the discussion in class.

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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. They also plan to expand and localize similar AI career coaches to different states.

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