The Responsive Classroom

Academic or Instructional Coaching

  • 11: What is an Education Consultant (and is it your next right step?)

    11: What is an Education Consultant (and is it your next right step?)

    Is education consulting your next right step? At the Responsive classroom, I’ve started a new section of my business called the EquippED Consultants Collective. You can find us on IG @equipped_consultants_co. The mission of this is simply to help and coach those of you who want to move into being an education consultant to start…

  • The #1 Way to Guarantee Growth for 2024-2025

    The #1 Way to Guarantee Growth for 2024-2025

    Hey friends! I know this time of year is tough, but I also know that if you are an administrator, you are already looking towards next year. You have to be.  So do you want to know the #1 way to guarantee growth for 2024-2025? Reflect on the current year and make a plan proactively…

  • 3 Things to do in the First Weeks of School to Guarantee Student Success

    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…

  • 8 Questions to Bring Student Growth

    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?

    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…