Lots of learning going on today from our amazing iCoach Sherley Clegg 🎤! Thanks for getting everyone ready to use the Neat Bar in the classrooms when students come back next week! It takes a team, and we have the best! #inspire96

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Agree!

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A lot of what is being called coaching is really support, encouragement, or mentoring. Coaching is more; it changes practice. The other stuff is good and makes us “feel” better, but coaching makes us “do” better. If you want your teams to excel, you gotta coach ‘em up!

“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.” - Trevor Noah

Agree Bill! Honestly, I don’t believe the PLC process will ever reach its full potential until we acknowledge that we have to coach the PLC process. All the research shows teams need coaching in the settings where they work. Unfortunately, our actions do not reflect what we know.

Thank you. NHS ❤️ and vaccination teams everywhere.

Our greatest asset is the collaborative team, period. Rather than pick at their shortcomings or vulnerabilities, build on their talents and strengths. If you do, I can guarantee that you will be very satisfied, even elated, with the results.

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The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠

Using TVs and a Samsung Flip to loop book suggestions and trailers in the Country Meadows Learning Center.

I can not, for the life of me, understand why schools would prefer a culture of academic competition over one of collaboration and celebration.