How to Coach Emotions
For a healthy school community, help people handle their feelings. Every school leader I’ve ever known has wanted less adult
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Education
Education, discipline that is concerned with methods of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments as opposed to various nonformal and informal means of socialization (e.g., rural development projects and education through parent-child relationships).
‘Reading is not a given’: National and local educators speak on how to teach reading in classrooms
Hilary Muñoz is a special education teacher at Chicago Public Schools who has taught reading to bilingual students on the
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Virginia’s K-12 enrollment still not yet back to pre-pandemic levels
Ed-tech groups are doubling down on efforts to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to abandon a plan to revamp the
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Meaningfulness-based education program to have first graduates
When second-grade special education teacher Karla Deaton walks down the Green County Primary School hallway, students quickly get in line.
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‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video
My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cartwheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected
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3 Strategies for Scaffolding Mathematical Discourse in Your Classroom
A discourse-led classroom is only possible when we intentionally build trust with our students. Language is an essential classroom tool,
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Rethinking the Manager’s Operating System
Late last year, I shared an article here at SmartBrief on Leadership, introducing the idea of the Manager’s Operating System
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4 Strategies Administrators Can Use to Respond to Negative Comments on Social Media
Managing negative social media can be tough. These strategies can help school leaders craft appropriate responses to criticism. As a
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7 Ways to Build a Learner-Centered Classroom
Teachers can create positive learning experiences for students that combine assessment with agency, opportunity, and community building. Standards-based grading (SBG)
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Collegial Coaching for Mutual Benefit
With this coaching relationship, hierarchy doesn’t matter—it’s all about school leader colleagues supporting each other for professional growth. School leadership
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