Uncategorized
-
What is a Responsive Educator?
The school year is underway! From the schools that I’ve been in this year and the administrators I’ve spoken with, it seems we are moving into a more consistent feel of “normal” than we have been in several years. My question to you is what are you seeing on your campus? Are students in engaged?…
-
3 Things to do in the First Weeks of School to Guarantee Student Success
While the first weeks of school can seem like an act of survival every year, for those of you who are veterans in education, you know that the first weeks are critical to setting up a successful learning climate for the students. As you are well aware, it it much harder to backtrack or have…
-
Boredom and the Brain
Bored kids don’t learn! In this article, we dive into research that shows what the brain does when we get bored.
-
8 Questions to Bring Student Growth
As you can probably guess, one of the main aspects of being a responsive educator is knowing your students, and then planning instruction accordingly – but what exactly does this mean? As I work with teachers, after we go through alignment (you can catch that on the next blog), the next question I ask is…
-
3 Phases of a Crisis – Where are your teachers?
So before I jump into the content of this blog, I want to acknowledge that teaching is hard right now. I, in no way, want to negate the difficulties that educators are facing. I do, however, think it’s important that we are always being reflective. The talk that I heard that led to this blog…