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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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Its something anyone can develop with practice and coaching, and my radar used to be terrible. For me, it took authentic practice and constant feedback from experienced birders. If I could start my teaching career again, I would request professional development days to observe beyond my content area, grade level, and even my school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Before I started teaching ninth grade Algebra in D.C. 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.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

However, there are three reasons I’d argue we should NOT spend our time outside of class grading: Our prep time is better spent designing creative and engaging lessons. Real-time feedback and assessment are way more effective. We don’t get paid for the time we spend grading outside of class.

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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). Welcome Task or Bell Ringer. ” Exit Ticket.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. I just get up and grade papers. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. The other mom looked sympathetic.

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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. Teachers can use a weekly feedback from to streamline feedback and make this practice a sustainable part of each week. Invite input by regularly collecting freedback from your students.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

In my work as a blended learning coach, I observe a lot of teachers facilitating blended lessons. Many teachers collect homework and take piles of student work home to grade. Homework is designed to be practice, so I’ve never understood why it is graded and often becomes punitive. 4 Real-Time Feedback. 5TeacherLed.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2017

being a student in a student-centered classroom is hard & some kids just don't want to work that hard Click To Tweet I teach 9th and 10th grade, so my students have been in school for 10 years before they walk through my classroom door. How can I help them to see the value in my roles as an architect of learning experiences and a coach?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. And the data usually boils down to student grades,” York explains. TeachFX is easy to use, York says. It’s as simple as switching on a recording device.

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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. In each lesson, or Cycle as they call them on LINCspring, you’ll be introduced to the topic through a “spark” video.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

Additionally, using a digital format creates space for students to document their learning and for teachers to provide feedback. Teachers can also use the document or slide deck to provide feedback by commenting directly on the document or recording audio notes with Mote and attaching them to the document or slide deck.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Most of the schools where I coach have a wonky Wednesday schedule that I have to navigate with teachers when we co-lesson plan together. When I coach elementary teachers, we use audio recording tools in apps like Remind or Class Dojo to record audio updates about student progress. 5 Playlists & Conferencing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

When we first began doing video coaching at Brevig Mission School in Northwestern Alaska, I was nervous. Such a thoughtful, respectful back-and-forth only increased the admiration I had for my colleagues, made me more eager to seek their feedback, and made clear the benefits of tapping into our staff’s collective intelligence.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Teacher 1 provides targeted instruction based on each group’s needs: Group 1 (Below Grade Level): Students work on identifying key details in a simplified fable with additional visual supports. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Technology can’t … provide higher-order feedback. Software is great for generating immediate, automated feedback on students’ mastery of basic knowledge and skills. But higher-order feedback falls outside its purview. Consider, for example, essay grading. The same holds true in other academic domains.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

When I facilitate workshops on this model or coach teachers using this model, I get a lot of questions. For example, I’ve coached teachers who run a four-station rotation over two class periods or a three-station rotation over three days, as pictured in the image below. It can be used across grade levels and subject areas.

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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 21, 2024

This type of tutoring can especially help in the early grades for literacy and in middle school math. What AI’s telling us about tutoring’s successful components American students in grades six through nine often become disengaged in math and begin to feel like math is “not for them.”

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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. The most effective PLCs I’ve worked with share similar characteristics.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Athletes take the lead as captains or student coaches. From Prekindergarten to Grade 12, students learn social-emotional skills through a carefully structured curriculum. September kicks off with Camp Elmwood, a chance for students in Grades 6 to 12 to connect outside the classroom. A recent highlight? Whitehouse notes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Building foundational literacy skills through systematic writing instruction in the early grades is critical for students long-term success. As the Wall Street Journal reports , kindergarten students tested in 2023 were about 2 percentage points less likely to begin school at grade level in reading, compared to 2019 data.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Teachers enter this profession determined to do it all – design and facilitate lessons, communicate with parents, monitor and track student progress, provide timely feedback, and grade everything. The answer I hear most from teachers is “no.” This unsustainable approach leaves teachers feeling tired and disillusioned.

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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. We chose to focus on improving the quality of instruction by adopting a single, high-quality math and reading program for each grade level and training our teachers in high-impact instructional strategies.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

I remind the teachers I coach that students will only lean into learning if they feel comfortable and safe in our classrooms. What are you spending time providing feedback on? Are students using your feedback to improve the quality of their work? What are you grading and why ?

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2018

As the supervisor of instruction in Haddon Township School District in New Jersey, I would love to be able to give my teachers feedback every week. Feedback is a crucial factor for growth and progress, especially for teachers, who are often starved for outside input on their classroom practice. Pair teachers who have a common goal.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

“MobyMax … finds the holes in my students’ academic experience and fills them, contributing to a rock-solid foundation,” said Tim Swanson, a second-grade teacher who is also the school’s technology coach. grade levels after an average of 26 hours using MobyMax.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Earlier in my career, my daily grading process amounted to little more than trading beans. In New Tech Network schools, grades are weighted according to five categories. With the revelation that we would have weighted categories of grades, my first reaction was, “Why wouldn’t we have weighted grades? It’s simple, really.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The right research-based strategies and technology–like observation and feedback using video–can help districts scale PD efforts. Vrain Valley (CO) School District, for example, began using peer coaching to address its teacher and substitute shortage. Assessing less to learn more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Our goals in creating this ecosystem were to increase reading achievement, help students succeed on their third-grade state assessments, and, most important, inspire our students to become lifelong learners through reading. We considered every perspective to get everyone behind our final decision. Choosing the right phonics-based platform.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, coaches, and other loved ones have faced an unprecedented challenge in this regard. Districts will see the value in data-driven instructional coaching. One practice that we will see gaining popularity is instructional coaching. –Patty Hagan, Teaching and Learning Coach, St.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Training educators is top of mind for leaders like Daniel-Hardy, though the Gulfport district hasn’t launched any formal coaching yet. “We Ready or Not To coach or coax educators into using generative AI tools, there is a consensus among the trainers that it first needs to be demystified.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

As part of the professional development offerings at Adams 12 Five Star Schools , we are implementing video coaching via the Edthena VC3 platform to add another layer of job-embedded support for our teachers, specifically for new teachers and special service providers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2017

That’s a suggestion from Jeff Allison, the e-learning and blended learning coach at Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board in Hamilton, Ontario. Content sharing helps ease teachers’ daily workflow, Allison said, giving them an automated way to show parents a student’s work and collect feedback.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Faced with the pressures of limited time, higher academic standards, diverse student needs, and the responsibility to teach many subjects and multiple grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources and ongoing support.

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