Enjoying your book! I’m good now, but I hid who I was for probably the first 30 years of my life. So sad!!

Yay, Aries!!!

100% agree!! How could one coach hold all of the knowledge?!

Anita Archer in her teaching arena! Glad I had this additional day to work with AK DEED and have a little time to hear her present on Reading with Phonics with Alaska educators.

Honored to be a part of the symposium!!

Great question!

It’s so beautiful in Alaska!! Looking forward to spending the next four days working in Anchorage!

Writing a chapter for Dawn Brookhart and my extension of SFC (w/Jan Hasbrouck, Ph.D.) focused on communication. 'When the district office shows confidence and trust in principals and provides them with autonomy, the principal-teacher relationship improves' (Robbins & Alvy, '14, 85).

Excellent, Jim, and good timing as leaders begin preparations for the next school year! 'It’s a strange reality that the people who are closest to a change often have the least say in how it’s implemented in a school....and students are often an untapped resource.'

Kicking off the PaTTAN Secondary Literacy Summit with a Keynote address is, Dr. Sharon Vaughn!
What an opportunity to learn from her! PA educators join us 5/29/24 at PaTTAN Harrisburg. Register here:
pattan.net/Events/Confere…

Curious: How do central office administrators in your system demonstrate a partnership mentality?

Schlechty’s advice for central office administrators: “create and manage systems that will enable principals and teachers to concentrate on the core business of schools, the creation of intellectual activity that students find engaging and from which they learn” (212). Empower!

'Fidelity is a buzzword which can prevent the necessary adaptions that might make the difference between coaching success and failure.'

I do appreciate a framework or model, however

Making more sense of teacher coaching | Leeds Beckett University leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carnegie…

Big trip in two days as I travel to Anchorage to continue Student-Focused Coaching (SFC) support with literacy coaches and, starting next week, introducing SFC to coaches who support other initiatives across the state! #literacy #leadership #MTSS

Really enjoyed reading Personal & Authentic, Thomas C. Murray! Agree that this 'won't happen if our classrooms are information rich yet experience poor' (96).

'The more we focus on a testing culture, which raises the 'we don't have time for...' mantra, the less we as educators feel we can do to build relationships and culture in our classrooms....poor leadership often reinforces and prioritizes these expectations.' (Thomas C. Murray 78).

'That's the ways we've always don't it.' It's a breath of fresh air when you get leaders who are willing to be vulnerable, take risks, listen to others, share power, and work together to change systems that impact student learning (e.g., Margaret Watson, Becky Mamich, Karen Langlands Ed.D.).

'The best thing that we can give kids this school year is not a new curriculum or technology...' (Thomas C. Murray, p. 16). Sad to see #instructionalcoach positions eliminated in some districts because of budget cuts, yet these same places spending more on materials w/o support.

From Thomas C. Murray's Personal & Authentic book, 'I can guarantee that no child I taught is able to remember a single worksheet I handed out as a classroom teacher. Yet to this day, I'll hear stories about many of the experiences that we had together...' (p. 97). Agree!

Exciting, Jackie! And participants during this network will likely be some who attend the two-day training with me in June at the ESC of Northeast Ohio!