eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Maybe some of these challenges sound familiar, whether you’re a district, a school, a curriculum leader or an instructional coach, a digital learning specialist, or a librarian. To explore how to increase the return on investment (ROI) of education technology, let’s take an inquiry approach.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Too often, a teacher’s questions in a video conferencing session are met with long silences. ” First, it is important to remember that participating in a real-time discussion is scary and feels like a risk for students who are shy, anxious, or need more time to process the questions. Facilitating Online Discussions.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While reading Adam Grant’s new book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things , I was struck by his distinction between teaching and coaching. But it’s coaching others that elevates our confidence.” The students in the study assumed the role of a peer coach. Milkman, Dena M.

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Coaching Motivation Writing Study 195

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

” This is a critical question that teachers should ask themselves as they design the parts of their lesson. 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.

Coaching 419

Coaching Learning Students Knowledge 419

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In my role as a technology specialist — or tech coach — at an elementary school, I support teachers of students in pre-K through second grade and I often hear comments like these. When I became a school-based tech coach six years ago, I faced these same struggles. “I don't have time to use technology with my littles.” It makes sense.

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Coaching Teachers Teaching Methods Knowledge 203

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While coaching teachers this month, several expressed a desire to include review and practice activities in their station rotation lessons to help students prepare for end-of-the-semester assessments. questions that the teacher can use to create a variety of review activities. Student-created Kahoot! Teachers who love Kahoot!

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Blended Learning Students Exams Study 522

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). I do, We do, Groups Do, You Do: Interactive Modeling Session. You matter.

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

They respond to a murmured question in a class full of conversation. They can tell if someones skipping class a floor away by reading faces in the room. Its something anyone can develop with practice and coaching, and my radar used to be terrible. This may come as a surprise, but when the room is silent, I can hear you whisper.

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Classroom Management Coaching Feedback Skills 176

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

With the speed dating set up, the students can bounce questions off of one another and engage in discussion. Additionally, I think about the misconceptions students have about the mathematics in question. I have also noticed that students do not read the full question. As a result, they struggle to find the error.

Math 453

Math Exams Blended Learning Coaching 453

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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Coaching Blended Learning Assignments Middle School 339

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

It is in the moments when students are practicing and applying that they encounter obstacles, have questions, and need additional support. I encourage teachers to consider the following question. I often compare the teacher’s role as facilitator to the work of a coach. The power of feedback. 77, 81–112. Valiandes, S.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Instructors 498

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Do they know how to question a graph they see on social media? Data literacy in a school context means more than reading charts or calculating averages. Why it matters for K-12 teachers As educators, we regularly interact with data, benchmark scores, reading levels, engagement analytics from edtech tools, and state test results.

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Ethics Education Culture Social Studies 278

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In my role as a blended learning coach, I value clear goals. Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. When teachers know what they are trying to achieve, they design lessons with intention and a clear sense of purpose.

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English Coaching Language Languages 420

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2020

Simply engaging in conversation in the language spoken at home around shared experiences, explaining your thinking, and asking open-ended questions so your child can share their thoughts, facilitates a deeper level of communication. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success.

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Distance Learning Learning Coaching Language 363

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. And while the science of reading is currently in the forefront of media cycles, many other areas of education are being informed by cognitive neuroscience research.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The statistics are well known: only 35 percent of students are reading proficiently by grade 4, and NAEP reading scores are the lowest in decades. Although most students can learn to read, the majority are not reaching their full potential. Coaching that provides content-specific individual support. “At As Louisa C.

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Reading Coaching Language Languages 168

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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Coaching Learning Feedback Participation 143

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

Even though we are on a campus full of colleagues, we rarely have time to walk down the hall to ask questions or share best practices. Build time into the schedule for tech-savvy teachers to mentor/coach their peers. . Just in time for summer reading! These teachers can be an incredible on-site resource for their peers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

Students are reading more and thinking critically about what they write. How do you continue developing your students’ reading and writing skills from afar? Shifting the reading environment. NBPS boasts a research-based guided reading program. Your school has made headway on literacy development.

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Coaching Writing Reading Questions 310

eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

During the pandemic, renowned reading expert Lucy Calkins called for a ‘rebalancing’ of Balanced Literacy, alluding to an increased focus on linking letters with their sounds–or what those of us who went to elementary school in the 80-90s know as phonics class. But it’s more than just reading. There is an issue with literacy.

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Coaching Reading Elementary School Elementary School 281

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

He took that proclivity to the next level a few years ago, when he accepted a position as a K-12 technology coach in a small school district in western Michigan. What brought you to your role as a technology coach? I’d tell them I am a technology coach, and most people are like, ‘What is that?’ And then they ask more questions.

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Coaching Teaching Social Studies Study 190

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 3, 2024

Younger students may also pair drawings with simple phrases to answer these questions. For example, I remember early in my career when I would collect feedback at the end of each semester, my students almost unanimously told me to stop assigning annotations each night with the reading. The results were shocking!

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Feedback Students Reading Assignments 460

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

For both novice and veteran teachers, Poe.com provides access to a behavior intervention bot in real-time to help with questions that might arise with paperwork or strategies for student behavior. In this case, AI can essentially serve as an on-demand instructional coach for special education teachers. MagicSchool.ai

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Special Education Teachers Multidisciplinary Education 303

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Contribution: Does the student contribute relevant ideas, questions, or solutions? For example, suppose small groups of students are discussing a text they’ve read, a video they watched, or a podcast they listened to. What two questions do they have? 3-2-1 Activity : Ask students to complete the following prompts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Simply engaging in conversation in the language spoken at home around shared experiences, explaining your thinking, and asking open-ended questions so your child can share their thoughts, facilitates a deeper level of communication. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success.

Online Learning 310

Online Learning Learning Coaching Language 310

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

So he reached out to me, his digital learning coach, to give him a better idea of how implementation might happen in a more intentional and sustainable way. Supporting this work is the job of an instructional coach. Instead of reading from the textbook, students were reading from the online textbook.

Coaching 144

Coaching Teachers Textbooks Feedback 144

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

When I lead blended learning workshops or coach teachers implementing blended learning, I get a lot of questions about classroom management. ” On some primal level, I know that I don’t like to be managed myself.

Classroom Management 419

Classroom Management Blended Learning Motivation Coaching 419

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

When I facilitate workshops on this model or coach teachers using this model, I get a lot of questions. In this post, I will answer some of the most frequently asked questions I hear about the station rotation model. read for pleasure, study for an upcoming quiz, complete an extension activity). Brain Break Choice Board.

Blended Learning 420

Blended Learning Coaching Activities Writing 420

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 question the current role many students occupy as passive consumers. What strategies we can implement to reinforce those boundaries, day after day? How do you currently use technology?

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Blended Learning Culture Coaching Discussions 366

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), or as school PD. Today: Classes.

Coaching 158

Coaching Authentic Assessment Writing Participation 158

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

” This is a critical question that teachers should ask themselves as they design the parts of their lesson. 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.

Coaching 285

Coaching Learning Students Knowledge 285

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

However, in 2019, nearly half our students scored below proficiency in math and reading as measured by state test scores. We standardized our use of instructional materials and implemented math and literacy coaches at every school.

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Teachers Coaching Students Math 247

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

This begs the question: What’s next for education? Oftentimes, when a person reaches their forties, a big life question ensues. “Is Teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, coaches, and other loved ones have faced an unprecedented challenge in this regard. They will continue to step up in 2023 to meet the challenge.

Coaching 338

Coaching Special Education Disabilities Communication 338

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

If we are focused on how to cite online resources or how to generate a hypothesis, this station gives me a chance to actually read and edit my students work. This time is great for one-on-one coaching, formative and summative assessments, goal setting, and conversations about final grades.

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Blended Learning Feedback Lecturing Coaching 412

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: Two Teacher-Led Stations – One Differentiated, One Guided Reading and Discussion Reading Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Teacher 1: Differentiated Instruction Station At this station, students are grouped by their reading comprehension levels.

Teaching 395

Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

We were motivated, we did the extra reading, we understood, we were excited about Foucault, saying “Oh my god, I’ve always wanted to read this. The fitness coach can’t exercise for you. A fitness coach is a fitness coach because he or she likes to exercise, and that’s why they’re all buff, right? Most of us.

Coaching 143

Coaching Lecturing Teachers Motivation 143

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

I know many teachers reading this don’t have flexible furniture. When I coach teachers using the station rotation model that combines individual and collaborative learning activities both online and offline , we talk about how to arrange the furniture in the room to communicate the type of task students are doing.

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Motivation Learning Outcomes Communication Coaching 481