"School leadership teams lead everything under the sun... On the other hand, guiding coalitions have a single purpose and focus. Guiding coalitions lead change." #atPLC NEW blog by Bill Hall! 📖: bit.ly/30jDjjg 📚 Powerful Guiding Coalitions: bit.ly/2WUJpEZ

“If a child is in intervention (RTI) year after year, it is a class, NOT an intervention!”

Excited for and feeling good about the “new better” and moving away from “normal” Tom Hierck

Do students know what is essential? Do they have the target? What would happen if we gave it to them? #assessmentlearning

Relationship building: Be there. Be there for all of them. Be all of who you are while there. Be willing to affirm and accept all of who they are while there. Be there.

It’s okay to float in the calm~ so many times educational leaders are so use to crisis management, we miss the beauty of successful systems.

Retrieval practice 101 Retrieval is a killer learning strategy. But most students don’t know how to get started. They need guidance from teachers. 4 dead-simple exercises you can steal to supercharge your students’ learning: 🧵 THREAD

When it comes to what we ask kids to do in class, we must remember this... "Tasks must be designed, not just assigned." We must design tasks producing evidence of learning. We must not just assign work for students to complete.

If a student turns something in late, it doesn’t mean the student has less understanding of the content, assignments turned in on time doesn’t mean the student knows the content more. If a student learns should be more important than when.

Something to remember before the kids get here: They are not: SPED kids EIP kids RTI kids 504 kids "Those" kids Low kids _____ kids. Kids are kids. First, love them Then learn them. We don't love labels. We love learners. Love, believe & challenge ALL kids. No excuses.

⭕⭕ Student-Centered Instructional Methods ⭕⭕ sbee.link/7wq3ba4kr6 via Mia MacMeekin #edutwitter #learning #teaching

Humans are hardwired to forget. But strategies like peer-to-peer explanations, regular review, and interleaving can boost retention, research shows.

Excited for the final Keynote of 2024 #FETC #FETC2024 #FETC24

It’s about the process more than the product! #FETC

Learning the power of AI at #FETC FETC

📘 Looking to engage your students in goal setting? This post includes 10 fun activities to help them aim high. #Education classtechtips.com/2024/02/07/goa…

☝Higher Order Thinking Questions for Your Next Lesson👆 sbee.link/brv7j3yct8 via ArtsInEducation #learning #teaching #education

Leadership is hard. Nobody said it would be easy. 🔺When people talk about you, keep leading. 🔹When people compliment you, keep leading. 🔺When your hard work goes unnoticed, keep leading. Why? Because we are in the kid business. Kids are the reason schools exist. It isn’t

🔍 Missing work doesn’t mean missing learning—it just means we don’t have the evidence yet. Instead of assuming gaps, let’s focus on how we can gather evidence of learning. #LeadInclusion #GradingForGrowth #EduSky #UDL #EdChat #TeacherTwitter

Tomorrow, we won’t be able to control the weather, the attitudes of the kids, or the number of annoying emails that flood our inbox. But... we can control the number of times we smile, the number of high 5’s we give, & the energy we bring to work. We can actually control a lot!