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I love learning menus, and it is one of my favorite ways to incorporate student choice and to differentiate learning. And with digital tools like G Suite for Education, it's super easy to make menus interactive, digital, and more dynamic! Digital Differentiation offers teachers and students many ways to reach all learners.

If more schools took the time for collaborative planning rather than top-down PD, we'd be in a better place.

This resource has instructional coaching menus using our framework "The Five H's: A Menu of Coaching Services." The first H shows how coaches provide help for teachers. The following four H's represent the different ways in which coaches can provide support. Teachers can use this menu as a guide for how to best ask for help based on where they feel they fit into this framework. This slide is editable to ensure the wording aligns with your school's approach to coaching. The Five H's: Help…

The model of instructional coaching supported by Diane Sweeney Consulting (DSC) is known as “student-centered coaching.” According to the organization’s website, student-centered coaching is able to achieve a higher degree of impact on students because of its focus on student learning rather...

Teachers need to get to a point where they feel like they need their grade level content teams in order to plan and implement curriculum, not like going to a team meeting is just one more thing or a waste of time. So how can instructional coaches help to create Collective Teacher Efficacy in teams? I’m glad you asked! Here are SEVEN tangible ways you as an instructional coach or literacy coach can intentionally help to create high-functioning teams that positively impact students’ learning.

Create a personalized coaching menu in three easy steps. Offer tailored PD options that meet the unique needs of educators.

Menu Choose from a variety of options, MIX and MATCH to design what is appetizing to you! Note: All dishes are free (but chocolate will...

If you remember, I originally had my planner set-up to also hold my coaching notes. While the system was working out okay, for a lot of reasons, I wasn’t really diggin’ it. So I took some time to rework it. Customized Covers Available at my Etsy Shop The first thing I needed was more space, since […]

It's been awhile since I have blogged...I think this is the longest blogging break I have ever taken, yikes! This is my first year as an I...

“PD in a Box” is a physical box an instructional coach puts together for teachers. Each box has an instructional focus (ie. classroom management or reading workshop). All the materials included in the box are to help teachers implement the instructional focus strategy with fidelity and greater success. Directions, a focus strategy, implementation tips, and a personal note of encouragement from the instructional coach are included.

What's for lunch? Choose from a variety of options, MIX and MATCH to design what is appetizing to you! Note: All dishes are free!

Menu Pick anything you want on our menu. Maybe you want a light snack or dive in deep for a full course meal!

Have you created a coaching menu yet? It's the perfect way to bring your coaching vision to life and can be completed in three easy steps. Listen to my guest podcast episode with Ruth Ayres on Choice Literacy!

How are your plans coming along as you get ready for back to school? I wanted to share a short video about the Instructional Coach binder with you

There is nothing I love more about my job, than coaching teachers. Although I am now a current administrator I still get to facilitate adult learning in my building and coach teachers along the way. It's important that as we coach our teachers through the best practices for student learning, we as coaches must follow our same advice. Teach to the learner and let the data guide the instruction. 1. Building relationships with our teachers is number one priority. We cannot expect a…

As I was walking through Target the other day, I got all excited when I came across the “back to school” aisle. I’m pretty much like a little kid when it comes to back to school prep. I love it! One of my back to school purchases for this year was a new discbound agenda […]