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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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This article briefly synthesizes responses from instructional coaches regarding their experiences, challenges, and recommendations for integrating AI into K-12 education. Ten instructional coaches, all with advanced degrees, had the following insights into the instructional use of AI in K12 education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Before I started teaching ninth grade Algebra in D.C. So when I transitioned away from that career to teaching, I was caught off-guard by a completely different model of management and supervision. One approach that schools can use to support teachers at all levels is providing collaborative, subject-specific coaching.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some experts believe this new technology can have a positive impact on teaching and learning, while others fret it may weaken the teaching of critical thinking and increase bias by spreading misinformation about different groups and cultures. 2023, July 27). EdSurge.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Teachers juggling the concurrent classroom with some students physically attending class and others joining remotely via video conferencing are trying to balance the demands of teaching in two learning landscapes simultaneously. Present-Pause-Discuss. Teaching is a challenging profession on the best of days.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Even though teaching online may feel like a different animal than teaching face-to-face, there are many similarities in terms of the building blocks of a lesson. My suggestion when coaching teachers is to think about their online lessons through the lens of these building blocks. Building Blocks of a Lesson.

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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

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. I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. My answer is a resounding “Yes!”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This includes in-person and tech-enabled learning that is specifically focused on strengthening culturally responsive teaching, differentiated instruction, and inclusive practices. This eight-step model is centered on collaboration to help improve both teaching and learning. Collaborative teaching opportunities. Math support.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Teaching digital citizenship as a “one-off event” doesn’t lead to changes in behavior, experts say. When author and IT director Mike Ribble talks about the importance of teaching students appropriate online behavior, he likes to share a few eye-opening statistics. But that isn’t happening in many school districts.

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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. Think about your daily or weekly routines (e.g.,

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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. I can understand why so many teachers are reluctant to move beyond their comfort zones and experiment with new teaching strategies. Can the Station Rotation Model work in a math class?

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

This is a sentiment I’ve repeatedly heard this year as I work with educators who are teaching online, on hybrid schedules, or juggling the demands of the concurrent classroom. Give students the option to take notes, draw or create sketchnotes, engage in discussion, or tinker. She was frustrated and exhausted.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

In my book, Balance with Blended Learning , I invite teachers to reimagine teaching and learning by partnering with students. 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

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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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

My work focuses on supporting leaders, coaches, and teachers in transitioning from traditional teaching practices to blended learning. ” As I listened to this episode, I was thinking about the concept of psychological safety through my educator lens. What did you learn? What are you going to do differently next time?

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

The PLCs are composed of teachers who teach similar grade levels and/or subject areas. In the last year, I’ve encouraged school leaders, coaches, and teachers to consider using the 5Es instructional model to guide their work in PLCs. What is challenging about their teaching assignments? My rationale is two-fold.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Instead of thinking about UDL and blended learning as two separate disconnected approaches to teaching and learning, it is worth exploring the overlap between the two. Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning. Building this into a station rotation lesson, as pictured above, it one strategy.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

When I began my career in education, I believed the value I brought to the classroom was my subject area expertise cultivated as an English major at UCLA and my pedagogical expertise honed while working on my teaching credential and Masters in Education. Our value lies in the human side of teaching.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Teaching data literacy helps students succeed academically and develop the civic skills theyll need to navigate the wider world. You dont need to be a data scientist to teach data literacy. In social studies , students can interpret historical or demographic data, question sources, and discuss how data is used to shape policy.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Is your teaching practice sustainable? As an educator with 16 years of teaching experience, I have dedicated the last several years to training, coaching, and supporting teachers. I want to help educators establish and maintain balance in their teaching practices and in their lives. How did you respond to those moments?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

is an award-winning educator who is dedicated to the continuous improvement of her teaching practices. 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.

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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

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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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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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. I encourage teachers to explain that a quick check is a teaching tool, not an assessment tool. Poll the Class with Mentimeter.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Reading coaches and teachers say the decline in reading proficiency and scores among kindergarten through third grade students was well underway before the pandemic. Illinois reading coach Katie James began her career in education as a teacher spanning first, second, and third grades. Teacher Beth Heidemann agrees with James.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2022

None of that was necessary, however, as my school principal was extremely supportive in my effort to implement scholastic esports at the school and, more importantly, to use the program to teach students transferable skills while simultaneously encouraging them to explore related career pathways. While a few had played before, most had not.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

What if he could make a difference by ensuring that kids had reliable adults—parents, teachers, coaches—to count on? Thus began his transition, from teaching high school students to focusing on their teachers. How do we integrate something like WeVideo to teach problem solving and make it better, more effective, more efficient?

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. Many are unaware that teaching online can actually open new possibilities to innovate their teaching practice.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

On any given day, you might find me performing the duties of an instructional coach, professional development facilitator or classroom teacher for the 1,300 Native American students in our district. Culturally responsive teaching is more than just a surface level recognition of multiculturalism.

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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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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. “We

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