Best Practice: Establish a "No Putdown Rule" in Your Classroom
Class rule: No putdowns, no exceptions… not by students or by the teacher. Mat and Rick walk into the classroom putting each other down jovially. Friends, they often banter with each other for fun. Today, however, Matt’s teasing suddenly struck a tender...Visual Learning Strategies that Support Really Terrific Instruction (RTI)
Draw it so that you’ll know it! Condense information into a picture and embrace the power of color. Teachers often present information verbally and linguistically. However, many of our students are visual learners. A substantial amount of our brainpower is devoted to...
Are YOU, As School Administration, On the Same Page?
In my coaching work, I have come to realize that the price a district pays for having teachers attend training without the benefit of having school administration also attend, and participate, becomes glaringly obvious and unacceptably high. For example, I was doing...