Articles for Teachers
Teacher Q & A: I Keep Running Out of Time to Finish My Lessons…Help!
Question:I keep running out of time to finish my lessons each day. This means that the next day I have to finish up what was left over and then try to finish the day's lessons. I am getting more and more behind and I am feeling very overwhelmed. Help! Answer: Oh...
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*Updated* Priority Skills: Basic Lesson Delivery
As many folks know, I am in the process of writing my fifth book! It’s about instructional coaching…tentatively titled “How to Coach Teachers to Teach (Almost) Anything” – – – I mean, it’s not like it’s going to be published by Yale or anything, right? One of the...
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*Updated* Priority Skills: Lesson Planning
As many folks know, I am in the process of writing my fifth book! It’s about instructional coaching…tentatively titled “How to Coach Teachers to Teach (Almost) Anything” – – – I mean, it’s not like it’s going to be published by Yale or anything, right? One of the...
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Does a Checklist Really Work? {Behavior Mgmt.}
I am on a quest to figure out how checklists can simplify and improve the quality of our work in schools. If you haven't read my first two installments of this little series, I suggest you do (they're super quick reads!). Here's the 1st. Here's the 2nd. This time I...
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Does a Checklist Really Work? {Team Meetings}
If you didn't read my first post on the power of checklists to manage the teacher/coach/principal workload, then click this to take 10 seconds and get caught up! I am checking out another checklist that I created - what do you think? What am I missing? Checklist for...
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Does a Checklist Really Work? {Talking with Parents}
I have been really obsessed with the book "The Checklist Manifesto." To say it's changed my life would be a little wild, but it has definitely changed my perspective. A lot. One of the things that I learned about the power of checklists is that is helps us manage...
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