What does it mean to be Coachable??? You hear that term around athletics quite a bit, but what does it actually mean? How can you apply it to yourself and your classroom? All good questions! Let’s look a little deeper and unpack what this really means: Being coachable, or coachability, means you are capable of…
Careers in K12 education can be very isolating. How ironic given how many colleagues we have, students we work with and families we support. However, each of those relationships are guided by the structure of the school day. Teachers and administrators are “always on” and this is why professional conferences are such a draw. The…
Three Things I Wish I Knew about ADHD While I Was Still Teaching October is ADHD Awareness Month and according to ADDitude Magazine, a leading resource on all things ADHD, just under 14% of adolescents are diagnosed with ADHD. So I did some quick math and figured out that out of the roughly 2,000 adolescents…
This article first appeared on unboxingeducation.blogspot.com Perhaps one of the biggest challenges of any work-from-home job is how to not be working. It becomes too easy to have one foot in the office at all times. I learned the lesson of unplugging in the most unlikely of circumstances: teaching online during the COVID-19 pandemic. In…
In today’s world, one can argue that hi犀利士 story is the most important subject area for the 21st century student to master. That’s easy for me to say and defend- I’ve taught and supervised history courses in New Jersey high schools for nearly two decades. I have a natural interest in learning more about these…
I’ll admit, if I look at the school year and what is ahead, I could self-ignite an internal stress that could keep me awake for days. A few years back, I started breaking a school year down using the marathon analogy. It is not a sprint! Marathons give us check-points. Marathoners have strategically-placed water stations…
This past week, we received a message from our child’s teacher that we needed to sign the 4th Grade Grading/Behavior policy form. As we looked through the contract we noticed the following section about late work: This raised all sorts of questions in our minds as parents and the practicality of using an academic measure…
If you are a new teacher who has just been hired by a school district at the last minute, then you may be feeling a little overwhelmed right now. Don’t worry – you are not alone! Every year, thousands of teachers are hired in this way. It can be challenging to adjust to a new…
As I enter my 24th year in education, I have been reflecting on all the different starts to the school year I’ve had. You know, those few days before the kids get back where we try to cram in all the latest state mandates or blood-born pathogen talks? As a teacher, I always felt a…
The Instructional Coaches Newsletter … You know it … you have seen it … you might have even hit the delete button on a few of them. Each week, coaches spend HOURS putting together the most perfect newsletter but … why do they do it? Recently, I put together two pretty extensive blog posts on…
