The Responsive Classroom

Teacher clarity

  • 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…

  • The Need for Teacher Clarity, and Why It’s Missing In So Many Classrooms…

    The Need for Teacher Clarity, and Why It’s Missing In So Many Classrooms…

    Like in all aspects in life, when there is a clear target to hit, we are much more apt to make progress. If you simply set out to “get healthier”, there is a much lesser chance that you will actually make sustainable progress than if you were to say, “I want to lose 10 pounds,…