k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. These platforms allow students to practice skills at their own pace while giving teachers real-time insights into their progress.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 23, 2024

I am excited to announce the launch of a new video series on YouTube called “Virtual Coaching.” That’s the goal of my new video series, “Virtual Coaching.” ” I want to answer your questions, tapping into my experiences and resources as a teacher, coach, and professional learning facilitator.

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Coaching Questions Blended Learning Feedback 221

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

I host a podcast called The Balance and wrote a book titled Balance with Blended Learning because I see teachers struggling with balance in every coaching and training session I facilitate. Instead of the teacher being the only source of information, support, or feedback, students develop the skills necessary to be resources for one another.

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eSchool News

JULY 18, 2024

Now, as teachers complete coaching cycles, they will be able to select a Science of Reading pathway within the AI Coach by Edthena platform and access Digital Promise’s research-based content, strategies, and best practices. This enables teachers to get the help they need, when they need it.

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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. And that made it harder to help new teachers grow their own skills when they asked for help. For me, it took authentic practice and constant feedback from experienced birders. That was until I got into birdwatching.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. Gina DiTullio holds a doctorate in Executive Leadership from the St. John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education.

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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.

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

MAY 24, 2021

As this year winds down, I encourage teachers to take the final weeks of the school year to create closure, collect feedback, and help students look forward. Teachers have been challenged to develop their skill sets and toolsets this year. Teachers have been challenged to develop their skill sets and toolsets this year.

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Activities Feedback Fairness Coaching 542

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

As students move through a lesson, some acquire information and skills more quickly than others. Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. Let’s explore examples in each category of formative assessment.

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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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Coaching Distance Learning Students Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I encouraged teachers to stop taking grading home for two simple reasons: Grading in isolation robs us of the opportunity to have conversations with students as we assess their work and, ultimately, makes feedback one-sided and less effective. Instead, I select 2 or 3 specific skills to assess for a score. Click To Tweet.

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Grades Blended Learning Essay Feedback 420

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

OCTOBER 20, 2015

is using MobyMax to identify and fill the gaps in students’ skills as part of its Response to Intervention program. 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.

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Curriculum Skills Elementary School Elementary School 274

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Engagement Active involvement in learning that is relevant, valuable, and interesting Representation Access to multiple ways to experience or receive information Action and Expression Set goals, monitor and track progress toward goals, engage in metacognitive skill-building through self-assessment and demonstrate knowledge in a variety of ways.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Therefore, despite all the reforms aimed at building a corps of skilled career educators, teachers are still quitting at alarming rates—a vast and expensive problem that disproportionately affects our most vulnerable students. Ideally, students will come to know instructional coaches as part of a team of adults supporting them.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2019

When I facilitate training sessions or coach teachers, I encourage them to shift feedback and assessment into the classroom where student progress can be an ongoing conversation. They pass back that work and students are often left to digest the grade and feedback in isolation. For what purpose?

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Grades Assignments Evaluation Coaching 419

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2017

I see my primary role as two-fold: 1) I’m an architect of learning experiences designing engaging activities and projects so my students can discover and create, and 2) I’m a coach providing regular, real-time feedback as they work. How can I help my students to appreciate the skills they will need when they graduate?

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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. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

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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. Recently, a new kind of tool has emerged. But there are very real concerns about the impact of these tools on children’s literary and literacy experiences.

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Coaching Reading Motivation Feedback 201

Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2021

Their needs, skills, interests, pacing, preferences, and language proficiencies are incredibly diverse. ” During a free-flow lesson, I used my teacher-led station to provide feedback on work-in-progress (e.g., 4 Hyperdoc Lesson + Teacher Time Coaching Station. The variety of humans in a classroom is remarkable.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Feedback 367

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

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 Tinker , you’ll be given templates to design how you’ll implement the skill with students.

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Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Coaching 363

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2022

As years of research from Harvard University has shown, the benefits of capturing and sharing videos to support preservice teachers, new teachers, and instructional coaching are far too great. Its teacher-preparation program had already been using video-based feedback for seven years. Instructional coaching and observation.

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Coaching Education Distance Learning Evaluation 317

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In my latest book, Balance with Blended Learning , I write about strategies that turn everyday tasks, like giving feedback, assessing student work, and conferencing with students about progress into opportunities for connection. Conferencing sessions are one of the most effective strategies for connecting with learners in class or online.

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Blended Learning Communication Coaching Questions 531

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2023

Over the past months I have had the incredible privilege of spending a lot of time with Kim Cofino and her instructional coaching team at Eduro Learning. Lately I have been leaning into the task of enhancing my instructional coaching knowledge and skillsets, so I signed up for Eduro Learning’s yearlong online course, The Coach.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In addition to the areas above, we provide our teachers with targeted professional development to help them strengthen their math instruction, particularly as it aligns with helping students master skills related to concepts and procedures. How are your teachers using the AI Coach platform by Edthena to support their professional growth?

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Coaching Peer Review Math Teaching Methods 300

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.

Blended Learning 420

Blended Learning Learning Coaching Discussions 420

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

In my work as a blended learning coach, I observe a lot of teachers facilitating blended lessons. If teachers are assigning homework, it would be more powerful to use that practice to encourage students to reflect on their progress and identify the gaps in their understanding of concepts and skills. 4 Real-Time Feedback.

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Teachers Essay Feedback Quizzes 420

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

When we first began doing video coaching at Brevig Mission School in Northwestern Alaska, I was nervous. It made me want to try harder in the classroom and sharpen my skills. A Practical Solution While the value of seeing my colleague’s skills in action was undeniable, it did have some practical limitations.

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Coaching Teaching Feedback Intelligence 156

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. Metacognitive skills must be taught. They need to set academic goals, monitor and track their progress and reflect regularly on the work they are doing and what it reveals about their skill set.

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Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Coaching Feedback 336

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills. They begin tackling real problems, building research skills, and learning how to think for themselves. Athletes take the lead as captains or student coaches. Girls who know how to lead, who understand their strengths, and who carry those skills with them into the world.

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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. It takes a human to give feedback on the more nuanced aspects of human communication.

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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

MARCH 25, 2025

We standardized our use of instructional materials and implemented math and literacy coaches at every school. Both of these math programs focus on problem-solving and skills-building in a rigorous but accessible manner, with a blend of direct instruction, structured investigation, and open exploration.

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Teachers Coaching Students Math 262

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

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Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 394

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Yet, this omission has a profound effect on students literacy skills. Not only does this affect their ability to communicate effectively, it also affects their reading skills, because writing and literacy are closely linked. According to one analysis ,half of U.S. eighth gradersstruggle with long-form writing on tests and classwork.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: Classes.

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