Bright Ideas The coaching probes and rounding sessions (as described in the previous two blog posts) provide ways for school leaders to harvest intellectual capital from teachers. Through our [...]

Rounding In a previous blog post, we discuss the benefit of applying the Coaching Probe Tool with collegial coaches and teacher learning teams to reflect on student success. Rounding is another [...]

Coaching Probes: A collegial coach of a teacher learning team can be someone in the school or someone at another school. Alternatively, the role can rotate from team member to team member in the [...]

Reflect on How Well Students are Learning: In performance-driven classrooms, teachers constantly reflect on how well their students are learning. Success should be measured by how well students [...]

Students Emotionally Experience Assessments Recently, Who’s Engaged? author Dr. Janet Pilcher was interviewed on The Daily Brew, a show on Pensacola’s BlabTV. In the interview, Dr. [...]

Amie Canter TeacherReady® certified teacher, leader, and advocate for students and teachers, Amie Canter, is continuing her work making a positive change in education. Canter’s innovative [...]

Most people have at least one bad habit, if not, more than one. The bad habits can be in their personal lives and in the workplace. Many teachers have bad habits they probably don’t even [...]

A Standout Teacher in the Making Sheri Green, a teacher candidate currently completing the TeacherReady® program, says she always wanted to be a teacher. “I wanted to inspire, motivate, [...]

What does engaged and effective teaching look like? There is no single definition or bullet point that shows what effective teachers should look like. We do know, effective teaching doesn’t [...]

We recently wrote a post about the importance (or rather lesser importance) of degree majors. Sure, there are plenty of people who go to school with a laser-focused path. They know exactly what [...]