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How video coaching helps us support teacher growth and retention

eSchool News

We believe that successful mentoring and instructional coaching sustains teachers, especially new ones, throughout the year and improves their ability to build strong relationships with students and families. Here’s how it works. To be most effective, we have found that video coaching should be consistent, intentional, and timely.

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Back to Basics: Lesson Planning for the Concurrent Classroom

Catlin Tucker

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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3 Tips for Building Community Online

Catlin Tucker

This work developing the social presence in our courses and helping students feel valued as members of a learning community must be ongoing. 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. 10 minutes).

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Improving student achievement through choice

eSchool News

We brought in close-reading strategies, started an academic coaching program for teachers, and launched reading interventions and guided reading groups. Those TVs—three in each room—are all wired together so that teachers and students can show one example on all three or operate each one individually for small-group work.

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8 lessons to help school leaders manage change

eSchool News

We’re going to have partners and coaches checking in with us about it. We’re going to work on it together and then we’re going to move on to the next five things.” Differentiating the professional development and coaching support for educators is just as important as differentiating instruction for students.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

Edsurge

Synchronous interaction also gives teachers the opportunity to model and explain how to use technology, to coach students on asynchronous assignments, and to provide guidance or “course corrections” in real-time.

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One Step at a Time: A Traditional School’s Journey Into Personalized Learning

Edsurge

This model is similar to the center rotations that already occur in many elementary classrooms, in which students rotate through stations in small groups, working both independently and with the teacher. However, encouraging students to take ownership for their group members is difficult.