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Coaching By Design: November 2010

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. What Does it Take to Teach with a Laser-Like Focus? Feedback from the November 2010 Focus Walk in upper grades included the phrase "teach with a laser-like focus". On the surface this seems simple - precise, focused teaching. Everyone does that, right? Thinking deeper, there seems to be so much more. What does it take to achieve the "laser-like" focus? Margret Wise Brown's book The Important Book. Teaches us the main idea, or what is important, for many common objects. A post ...

Coaching By Design: August 2011

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Compliance or Competency: What’s Important? August brings a new school year, new teachers, new grade levels, new administration, new curriculum, and new students. The first weeks are a rush of planning, prepping, and establishing rituals and routines. After being in school for a few weeks the dust begins to settle and schools settle in for the hard work ahead. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Compliance or Competency: What’s Important? View my complete profile. Picture Window templ...

Coaching By Design: February 2011

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Monday, February 14, 2011. Reflections: A Quiet Place. Deep down inside, there is a quiet place. To get there you have to start past the bright, electronic lights and the beckoning sirens song of the Internet. The visuals come by you fast and quick. If you close your eyes, and can keep your hands from touching the screen, you can pass by without them touching you very deeply. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Reflections: A Quiet Place. View my complete profile.

Coaching By Design: March 2012

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Thursday, March 15, 2012. And on to something new: Teaching with Design! This past year of blogging has been a wonderful adventure. My reason for starting this blog was to give me a way to differentiate my coaching. For me, at least, it was a way to highlight and coach on topics that I saw in my own school. Some of my posts have resonated with a larger audience outside my school, town, and state. Thank you to everyone for reading. I hope you will join me at my new blog Teaching with Design. Picture Windo...

Coaching By Design: Summer Professional Learning

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Thursday, June 9, 2011. I’ve been getting requests from teachers at my school for summer professional reading suggestions. We have multiple copies of classic books on various topics such as guided reading, conferencing, problem solving in math, response to intervention, even books on leadership in our professional library. Teachers are welcome to check them out over the summer! Can’t beat free, right? Next in line, another favorite standby is the Fountas and Pinnell. These short videos give one a glimpse...