What Do I Do When My Co-teacher is Completely Different Than Me?
Sometimes it’s hard to know how best to work together in support of students when you and your co-teacher seem to be so different. There are almost always things that you can do, or ways to make the co-teaching relationship work, even when you and your partner...
How Principals Can Support Teachers with New Initiatives
Administrators who mandate training for teachers and then don’t attend the training themselves are doing everyone a disservice, including themselves. In my coaching work, the price the district pays for having teachers attend training without the benefit of...
Why Change Mindsets About Student Potential?
Change Your Mindset About Student Potential I started teaching in 1980 and, over the years, I became increasingly aware of the large number of students who were labeled special needs who probably did not need nor deserve that stigma and lifelong label. A consequence...
20 Things to Never Say to Your Co-teacher
I was co-teaching biology and working with a teacher who could say the meanest things with a smile on his face. One day, I was teaching the parts of the heart. When I finished explaining the difference between the inferior vena cava and the superior vena cava, he told...