Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For English Language Arts (ELA) teachers, AI-powered writing tools help to provide immediate feedback, guiding students through the writing process and fostering a more personalized approach to learning. So, introducing AI was relatively easy because my students were used to the writing process and going through revisions.

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Writing Art English Students 205

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

If students are working 0n an essay, I dedicate one station each day to providing real-time feedback as they write. There are other aspects of writing covered in the rubric, but I don’t try to assess them all for every single assignment. This should happen in the classroom where the teacher can act as a coach.

Grades 420

Grades Blended Learning Essay Feedback 420

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). The lesson template below has five sections. Welcome Task or Bell Ringer.

Blended Learning 546

Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

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. Contrary to these findings, AI-powered reading coaches seem designed to prioritize encouraging external motivation.

Coaching 206

Coaching Reading Motivation Feedback 206

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

I get asked this question frequently as a blended learning coach. This includes small group discussions, practice problems, experiments, retrieval practice or writing practice, as well as my favorite component, the teacher-led station. My answer is a resounding “Yes!”

Blended Learning 546

Blended Learning Learning History Social Studies 546

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Consider a career coach. Check out these resources from colleagues: Teacher Career Coach. Teacher Career Coach Course. Now, I teach, coach, mentor, and write about education for a variety of ezines and ed companies. If any of this applies to you, don’t feel you have to handle it alone.

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Coaching Internet Curriculum Writing 150

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.

English 420

English Coaching Language Languages 420

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team came up with fresh rules we think are less threatening and more geared to enabling students to enjoy this important writing style. Start small. Mastering these basics is akin to acquiring the essential building blocks that will enable you to construct a sturdy and aesthetically pleasing literary edifice.

Essay 167

Essay Writing Skills Interdisciplinary 167

Catlin Tucker

MAY 24, 2021

Ask them to write a poem (structure and style their choice) and begin with the phrase “Still I rise…” You can have students publish their poems or read them aloud. Encourage your students to think about what they have learned this year and how the pandemic has changed their lives. What was lost?

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Activities Feedback Fairness Coaching 542

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

I often compare the teacher’s role as facilitator to the work of a coach. Coaches watch players as they practice and provide specific, actionable feedback to support their development. We can spend all day telling students how to do something, like write a thesis statement, solve a type of problem, or analyze a primary source.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Instructors 498

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

Quick Write or Free Write: Present students with a prompt and encourage them to write for a set amount of time in response to it (e.g., Explain that the goal is not to write perfectly in terms of spelling and grammar but instead to write as much as possible in a limited amount of time. 5 minutes).

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Blended Learning Coaching Knowledge Writing 375

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), or as school PD. Teach Writing with Tech. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. Today: Classes. Some are for certificates; others for college credit.

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Coaching Authentic Assessment Writing Participation 158

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? It encompasses a range of literacy strategies and tools introduced in stages to help learners at all academic levels build their reading and writing.

Coaching 310

Coaching Writing Reading Questions 310

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 19, 2024

As an instructional coach and administrator, I regularly observed teachers providing direct instruction using explicit vocabulary routines. Such routines include students saying the word aloud, clapping out syllables, looking up and writing down the definition, and finding examples and non-examples of vocabulary terms.

Writing 374

Writing Coaching Knowledge Activities 374

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

When I facilitate workshops on this model or coach teachers using this model, I get a lot of questions. I found it helpful to identify the learning objectives for a lesson and write out a traditional linear agenda since that was familiar. Q1: How do I get started designing a station rotation lesson?

Blended Learning 420

Blended Learning Coaching Activities Writing 420

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 24, 2019

When coaching a group of teachers this month, we created a transitional language lockbox challenge. Students worked collaboratively to complete the sentences with the correct transitional works using a small whiteboard marker to write their initial answers directly on the plastic page protector. Kids enjoy games!

Exams 407

Exams Language Languages Coaching 407

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. to write a series of blogs about how she is using the Station Rotation Model in her math class. Can the Station Rotation Model work in a math class? I get this question a lot.

Math 545

Math Blended Learning Questions Coaching 545

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2019

In my role as a blended learning coach, I work with a lot of teachers who are intrigued by the idea of digital notebooks. If they enjoy writing notes by hand, they can take a photo of those notes and insert them into their digital notebooks. They recognize the value of having student integrate text and media in an online notebook.

Blended Learning 419

Blended Learning Coaching English Feedback 419

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. Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game. I thought it was a brilliant idea!

Blended Learning 522

Blended Learning Students Exams Study 522

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.

Blended Learning 531

Blended Learning Communication Coaching Questions 531

eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. This was my first real introduction to video coaching. How does the AI coaching process work?

Teachers 281

Teachers Coaching Math Intelligence 281

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. As Katie Novak and I write in UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes (coming out May 29!),

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Beliefs 521

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Whether its writing a research paper with academic integrity or designing a technology solution that addresses a global issue, Elmwood girls learn how to think deeply and act responsibly. Elmwood encourages students to create and lead clubs that reflect their passionswhether thats robotics, creative writing, or cultural heritage.

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Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Art 222

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2020

Thomas Arnett, senior research fellow in education for the Clayton Christensen Institute, writes about the options educators have this fall—in or out of school. eSN’s own Dennis Pierce writes an amazing story on how fifth-grade teacher Kim Voge has had students literally beg her to give them more writing assignments.

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Education Distance Learning Writing Blended Learning 319

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 6, 2020

As a blended learning coach, I spend a lot of time in classrooms observing lessons. I cannot count the number of coaching sessions that have begun with a teacher explaining that they don’t have time to try a new strategy, technology tool, or instructional model. I am a creature of habit and love my routines.

Coaching 453

Coaching Blended Learning Activities Questions 453

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: Writing Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.1 7.1 – Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. The teacher provides more direct support and scaffolding, ensuring all students can build a strong foundation in argumentative writing.

Teaching 395

Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The elementary schools use Units of Study Writing as the core writing resource aligned to standards. It is imperative that all of our teachers, instructional coaches , and administrators share a common language and instructional practices to support all students in the area of literacy.

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Elementary School Elementary School English Language 309

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

Fifth-grade teacher Kim Voge has had students literally beg her to give them more writing assignments. Voge, who teaches at Van Buren Elementary School in California’s Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, returned to the classroom last fall after serving as a digital learning instructional coach for seven-plus years.

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Learning Assignments Coaching Elementary School 333

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.

High School 288

High School High School Coaching Schools 288

Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2021

writing task, performance task, research project). One of my favorite blog posts to write last year was my choose your learning path adventure ! 4 Hyperdoc Lesson + Teacher Time Coaching Station. Then the teacher is freed to run a help desk or coaching station. 2 Your Choice Station Rotation Lesson.

Universal Design 367

Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Feedback 367

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

In other words, some of its textbooks are now sold with coaching on how to teach with OER more effectively. Announced this week, the new offering was made possible because Lumen Learning purchased the higher education assets of a coaching company for instructors called Faculty Guild.

Coaching 136

Coaching Textbooks Instructors Faculty Development 136

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Ask students to find the mistakes, correct them, and explain (in writing or verbally in a video recording) how they knew the errors were present and how they went about fixing them. formal writing assignment, performance task, project). to explain how it is similar to something else.

Feedback 431

Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 431

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

He has steered the course ever since, each spring when he takes breaks from writing books or pieces for The New Yorker, and it has become legendary in journalism circles. 4: On the Writing Process , and I was eager to talk to him about his craftsmanship as a teacher. McPhee lays out his course in his latest book, Draft No.

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Writing Teaching English Reading 167

eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2021

As an instructional coach who works closely with many educators, one concern I’ve heard recently is that teachers are afraid to address social issues without seeming to impose their views. As Jonathan Gold explains in this article , making dignity non-negotiable is not as simple as including multiple perspectives.

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Learning Spaces Coaching Learning Writing 304

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. It’s writing and skilled questioning.

Coaching 281

Coaching Reading Elementary School Elementary School 281

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2017

My program will allow me to continue teaching and coaching, but it will present some very real challenges for me personally when it comes to balancing my various roles and responsibilities–mother, teacher, trainer, coach, speaker, and author. I’d suggest you not even log into email during until your designated email times.

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Coaching Motivation Attention Blended Learning 419