C3 Connecting, Coaches, Cognition

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-Education is what Christian’s journey revolves around. “I am most passionate about education. I want to imagine a time when everyone has access to excellent education.”

That is what motivates him. He has reflected on how access to excellent education has impacted him, given him more opportunities, and his journey. 

-Discovering coaching was a transformational moment for me. Coaching is the most respectful way to sup...

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-Served in a wealth of roles within education from teaching, coaching, to administration.

-Contract work for curriculum companie and Senior Consultant for Learning Forward

-Mentoring Program through Learning Forward- a learning cycle with three parts. 1. Diagnose 2. Coaching Support 3. Monitoring Progress and Reflect

-The mentors only goal is to help the mentee grow professionally. You have to communicate effectively...

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-High Tech High- PBL Based Leader

-International Educator to move from teacher focused to student focused learning.

-Moving from  sage on the stage to the guide on the side. Where do you start? Look at the physical environment first. Eliminating the ‘front’ of the classroom and teacher desk, which changes the dynamics in the room. It makes any space in the room a learning space. 

-Have students help in the redesign...

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-Thomas has had a wealth of experience teaching middle school and high school. Then he went to graduate school at the University of Chicago. He worked with Benjamin Bloom. He has had the amazing opportunity to learn from such remarkable minds as this. 

-We have to give credit to those brilliant people who came before us. Tom worked with Chicago Public School as a Curriculum Evaluator and the Director of Research and ...

Jim Knight is a founding senior partner of the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching.

Knight has written several books and his articles on instructional coaching have been included in publications such as The Journal of Staff Development,...

Carol Ann Tomlinson is William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the University of

Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development. Prior to joining the faculty at

UVa, she was a public school teacher for 21 years. During that time, she taught students in high

school, preschool, and middle school, and administered district programs for struggling and

advanced learners. She was Virginia’s Teacher of the Year in 1974...

Coaching is intentionally building skills, showing and modeling best practices, and intentionally training people to be better. 

-His work has been in some of the most difficult zip codes to work in. They see coaching in more of a model practice. They define clear directions.

-Sky Rocket Your Teacher Coaching (Skyrocket Education and Rebel Culture)

-Intentionally building the relationship, and finding out about them as a pers...

There is nothing more powerful that we can do, than knowing our own selves. When we know ourselves, we know how our past affects our present, and forms our vision for the future, and we are so much more empowered!

-Lonely and isolated, she entered into the profession feeling unsure of what she was doing. Belonging and acceptance was the core, as well as building community. That commitment continued in coaching, as a leader, and n...

-Coaching is seeing a person who is carrying the weight of life,  and finding their way. This model is so respectful. It is about people making progress and positive changes.

-Every industry needs coaching. 

-An expert is the person who experimented and failed the most. Seeing people as the experts in their lives.

-Dialogic Orientation Quadrant ( DOQ) - organizes the content you are listening to. Its function is to map the ...

-Art and Bob have worked together for over 40 years at California State University at Sacramento. Cognitive Coaching was born through this relationship. ‘We have these things in common, let's talk further.’

-A coach is used in many different ways, typically in an athletic realm. There is a distinction between these types of coaches and cognitive coaches. A coach is a person who, alongside the person being coached, helps mediate bet...

-Connections Over Compliance- Our nervous systems are social systems. The educational system consists of us being with other people all the time. COVID created a huge social loss. It is even more relevant in this time. 

-Attachment builds the brain. “We work for people we like; we respect people who respect us.”-  Rita Pearson

-Touchpoints where you resonated with each other, student and teacher. It was through relationship and d...

Tricia McKale

Show Notes:

-Preparedness meets lucky opportunities - Middle school teacher turned Instructional Collaborator via Jim Knight. 

-Working with adults with a lot of trial and a lot of error. Found that the behavior management system was getting in the way of us doing instructional coaching. Behavior is where my life is at and I was a Tier 3 student in school.

-C.H.A.M.P.S. - Conversation. Help, Activity, Movement, Par...

Sherry St. Clair is the founder of Reflective Learning LLC, an educational consulting agency based in Kentucky. Her organization works with schools around the world, creating specialized training and coaching services for school administrators and educators. She holds a master’s degree in Instructional Leadership and a Rank 1 in Instructional Supervision.

Sherry has served as a Senior Consultant for the International Center for Lea...

-Leading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy and Agency  -New book - we wanted to share more of the explicit ‘how', as well as making sure equity is up front and present in this edition. It is infused with culturally responsive sustaining education practices that are asset based, where we look at assessments through the theme of culture. We all have different cultures and are coming together in a classroom. We can honor th...

-Building thinking classrooms- around the notion that students spend time in classrooms not thinking. Many structures are not designed for thinking, and instead for conformity and compliance. 15 years of research before the book, and the research continues.

-One of the least conducive places to have students do thinking is at their seat writing in their notebook, but one of the most conducive spaces for students to do thinking is s...

Gretchen is a National Board-certified elementary school teacher from Charlotte, NC.

In 2006, Gretchen received her bachelor’s degree at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 2010, she received her master’s degree in Curriculum and Supervision from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Gretchen taught grades 2, 3, and 5 before transitioning into the role of a New Teacher Development Coach for The New Teacher Project...

Adam Geller is the founder of Edthena and author of Evidence-Based Practice. He started his career in education as a science teacher in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2011, Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into a research-informed and patented platform used by schools, districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers.

Adam has written on educational technology topics ...

Learner Agency: A Field Guide for Taking Flight is a boots-on-the-ground resource for those who wish to foster greater agency for students and adults alike within their classroom, school, or school system. Written by practitioners who have experienced the triumphs and struggles first-hand, the book offers a framework for moving from building knowledge to making meaning and applying the understanding of practices and systems that su...

Suzanne Dailey is an instructional coach in the Central Bucks School District, where she has the honor and joy of working with over 500 elementary teachers and 8,000 students. She teaches model lessons, facilitates professional development sessions, and mentors teachers to be the best for the students in front of them.     

Suzanne is Nationally Board Certified, a fellow of the National Writing Project, and has a Masters Degr...