Not a Coach (Yet)!
Educational Technology Coach We want to give you a peek inside our Coach Microcredential Online Mentorship Program. Coaches taking part in this academic-year-long journey have graciously given us permission to post some of their learning and...
3 Ways to Help Students Distinguish Real from Fake News
Dictionary.com has added the following definition:fake news [feyk nooz, nyooz]1. false news stories, often of a sensational nature, created to be widely shared or distributed for the purpose of generating revenue, or promoting or discrediting a public figure,...
Who’s In Your Corner?
If you had told me 10 years ago that I would be a small business owner and a competitive powerlifter, I would have thought you were crazy. But, here I am (and it still kinda surprises me every day). I know that a big reason I've been able to get here is because of...
Learning Walk
Instructional Tech Facilitator We want to give you a peek inside our Coach Microcredential Online Mentorship Program. Coaches taking part in this academic-year-long journey have graciously given us permission to post some of their learning and reflections...
The Many Roles of an Instructional Coach
“In many schools, coaches already are perceived as and perceive themselves as jacks-of-all-trades. They are often scattered, pulled in many directions trying to serve teachers’ disparate needs without any parameters.” Coaching Matters by Killion, Harrison, Bryan,...
Global Collaboration in the Connected Classroom
Virtual field trips and video chat are great ways to create global collaborations that your students will enjoy and learn from all year long.
A Coaching Conversation
Educational Technology Coach We want to give you a peek inside our Coach Microcredential Online Mentorship Program. Coaches taking part in this academic-year-long journey have graciously given us permission to post some of their learning and...
Consuming or Creating: What’s Worth Your Child’s Time?
We tend to think of our children as consumers of information. They start consuming technology from an early age. This study in 2014 released the following results: Most households had television (97%), tablets (83%), and smartphones (77%). At age 4, half the children...
5 Ways to Build a Coaching Culture
We are all working towards building a culture of coaching in our schools. As instructional coaches, we want our teachers to understand the value and purpose of coaching so that we can have meaningful coaching conversations with all of our teachers. Developing a...
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As more and more schools go one-to-one, giving every student a connected device we have to understand that this fundamentally changes the learning landscape. Not just in our classrooms but in our communities at large. Giving every student a laptop levels the content knowledge in the classroom. When it comes to accessing content everyone is on the same plane. If everyone can access the content needed to master a class the moment they need to know that content then we need to rethink what the time in class should be used for. No longer do students need to be in school to learn. Let #leadingthechange, written on March 4, 2016, by 25 educators from across the state of Washington, during an Eduro Learning Institute, be your guide to the next steps in learning in your school!
