Pressing Onward


  • 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…


  • 5 Things All Good Academic Coaches Should Know…

    5 Things All Good Academic Coaches Should Know…

    We all have our wheelhouses so to speak – that desire zone where you feel really comfortable.  For me, one of those areas is coaching. As instructional coaching is becoming a more widely accepted and needed practice in public education, we have to make sure that coaches know how to coach! Working with students is…