Did you know principals are critical to developing and retaining educators?

Principals are responsible for creating positive, healthy working conditions. Research shows that educators' working conditions impact professional learning and retention.

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Our coaches work with educators to plan for long-term success and eliminate barriers to permanent change. We coach and build on small, incremental changes that lead to big impacts.

Here are a few of our favorite questions to ask in the Permanence phase of our LEAP cycle.

Please help us welcome Jessica B. to our cadre of freelance instructional coaches!

Jessica's experience in K-5 literacy will help us expand our support to educators closing achievement gaps for their students!

Welcome to the team!
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Instructional coaching is the most powerful strategy leaders can utilize to support educators and improve student outcomes.

We're here to help PK-12 schools create or expand their coaching program so every educator & student can benefit!

Now enrolling for 2024-25.

Not all coaching is the same!

Too many educators experience directive coaching that leaves them feeling evaluated and criticized, not supported.

Our coaching model delivers support that feels like support by empowering educators with voice, choice and agency.
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Our LEAP Coaching Model is a framework that guides each coaching conversation. Our dialogical approach is guided by best practices and research in order to achieve positive educator and student outcomes.

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This is compelling evidence that policies to ban/eliminate phones from classrooms would significantly improve outcomes for students.

Multilingualism is a superpower that should be encouraged and developed in all students.

This end of UNIT reflection is a great way to engage students in closure and collect valuable formative assessment data.

Exactly! Coaches who use a dialogical approach leverage questions to guide problem-solving, critical thinking, reflection and action planning. Along the way they provide guidance and support, when needed, based on their knowledge and expertise.

Thanks Dr. Alex Brouhard for sharing another way to frame questions. This is a great questioning strategy to increase feelings of psychological safety of your classroom.

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Thanks Matt Bergman, Ed.D for sharing your assessment infographic! Bonus points for the #UDL integration.

Choice boards don't always have to be a tic-tac-toe game. Thanks Dr. Catlin Tucker for sharing these 5 different ways to format your next choice board.

Which is your favorite? We're partial to the standards-aligned choice board.

These CER resources are great tools to add to your #UDL toolkit. They can be used to scaffold student learning and decrease barriers to engagement, comprehension, and expression.

Closure activities are an essential part of effective lesson design. The most important aspect of closure is that the learner must do the closing, not the teacher!

Exit tickets are a great activities that center the closing on the learner. Check this tool out! ⬇️

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NCTQ We'd love to see high-quality clinical practice coupled with evidence-based instructional coaching that begins in pre-service and continues throughout their first years (beyond mentoring/induction). That would really change the trajectory for new teachers and their students.

Zach Groshell This, and more, is why I created Ribbit Learning Company! Educators choose their peer-to-peer coach from our cadre of experienced educators trained in our dialogical coaching model. Our virtual coaching program ensures they only coach, no wasted time. #transformingcoaching