What’s the Purpose?
Literacy educator discovers her creative writing on a standardized test, and struggles to answer the comprehension questions.
Six Essentials Webinar Recording
Check out my webinar “Six Essentials for EL Excellence” at this link. Enjoy the webinar alone, or with your team or school. It’s easy to use this webinar to lead interactive professional learning. Simply pause the video and structure think-pair-share each time I ask a question to engage people in reflecting and discussing. In this webinar participants . . . Learn six essentials to teach and lead for EL Excellence…
Get Explicit about Implicit Bias
No matter how good our intentions to be free of prejudice, we all have implicit biases that can have a serious impact on our work in schools.
Implicit bias refers to stereotypes or attitudes that affect our decisions and actions. Unlike explicit bias, which is intentional and part of our belief systems, implicit bias is an association we have that is unconscious and unintentional.
Open Doors to Deep Professional Learning
For the past several years I have been collaborating with educators across diverse districts to test and refine Observation Inquiry (OI), a powerful approach to leading teacher learning in classrooms together. I’ve been researching, filming, editing, and writing to create a concrete how-to guide to share this work with you.
