For the past 35 years, Steve Barkley has served as an education consultant to school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges and universities nationally and internationally, facilitating the changes necessary for them to reach students and successfully prepare them for the 21st century. A prolific published author, his weekly blog has evolved into a go-to resource for teachers and administrators all over the world. Visit BarkleyPD.com to learn more.
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Guiding Through Change: Yourself, Teachers, and Teams
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Dr. Kim Richardson describes that change is inevitable and manageable. As coaches and school leaders we need to be competent in guiding ourselves and others during change. Kim describes the need for emotional intelligence and resilient leadership. Knowing people are unpredictable requires coaches to observe and communicate. Change is a process not …
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Coaching That Explores a Web of Causality
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The term "web of causality" refers to a conceptual framework used to understand the interconnected and complex relationships among various factors that contribute to a particular outcome. The term "web" emphasizes that causes tend not to be linear or singular but are instead interwoven. How do coaches encourage multi-valent thinking that acknowledg…
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Consistency in Classroom Management Could Imply That One Size Fits All
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"While teachers use interventions to allow students to catch up with their learning results and use differentiation to make sure that learning tasks are appropriate, when it comes to behavior we often default to consistency as a panacea." -(Dave Whitaker) Consistency is built when students sense the teacher’s usual, expected teacher behavior. Flexi…
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An AI Summit for Schools and Community
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St. Cloud School Superintendent, Laurie Putnam and director of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment, Donna Roper, share their experience hosting an AI Summit that included about 200 local and national educators, business leaders, community partners and state legislators. They considered how we should respond to make our education systems relevant t…
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Helping Teachers See Hope and Possibilities With Their Students
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Former classroom teacher, school administrator, and district-level leader, Angie Freese, works with educators as a facilitator, coach, practitioner, and mentor. She empowers educators’ efforts to interrupt antiquated and ineffective practices that only work for some to generate sustainable growth and performance for all. Angie is the founder of the…
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What Do You Want Students to Learn Through Your Classroom Management Approach?
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As the start of a new school year approaches, it’s a great time for teachers to consider how their approach to classroom management not only impacts their classroom environment for content learning but also what students learn from being part of that classroom management plan. Questions to consider as you reflect on your classroom plan are included…
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Leaders Modeling the Use of Feedback
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Zak Cohen, a highly experienced school leader with a strong belief in "leading by example," shares his process for collecting feedback from teachers regarding his leadership competency and supportiveness. He turns that feedback into a hypothesis for improvement and requests feedback on his hypothesis. In this process Zak models the curiosity and vu…
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Robert Landau, education futurist and strategist, discusses establishing a hippocratic oath for the educators. Such a pledge would bind us to ethical, equitable, and progressive educational practices that place students' growth and welfare at the core of everything we do. "The traditional Hippocratic Oath is a pledge taken by physicians to uphold s…
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Classrooms Built on Dignity, Authenticity, and Connection
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Angie Freese, author of Meant for More: Real Talk About Classrooms Built on Dignity, Authenticity, and Connection, explores her belief in educators’ potential. She supports educators to create classrooms where students can be brave, assured, and confident in their learning pathway. In this podcast she highlights authenticity, connection, curiosity,…
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Building Teacher Growth Plans That Impact Student Success
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Tammy Jochinke, The Director of Teaching, Learning and Innovation, at the Dubai American Academy, created a process for 240 teachers to design professional growth plans based on a hypothesis from asking the question, "What do my students need me to learn?” Tammy shares the importance of focusing on student success with teacher autonomy and curiosit…
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Students Setting Goals and Developing Plans
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Students’ abilities to set goals, plan for success, and systematically collect feedback are critical to school and life success. Starting the school year teaching these processes (at all grade levels) can set the stage for increased student success throughout the year and beyond. This podcast shares important elements to build into your plans for e…
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Coaching From the School Improvement Plan
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Dr. Karen Johannesen, a highly experienced school leader, writer, and organizational change consultant explores the role of professional development and coaching in school improvement plans that positively impact student success. She believes that when schools support teachers with well-designed and rich professional learning, those teachers create…
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Making Magical Ripples Towards a Coaching Culture
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To what extent should building coaching into the culture of the school be a desired outcome of instructional coaches’ and administrators’ responsibilities? How can an instructional coach plan for and assess progress even when administrator support or system expectations are not present? Many schools experience ongoing changes in staff and teams, wh…
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Explore how teachers working in PLCs can use a verb approach to assessment and error analysis to collaboratively focus on shared accountability for ALL students’ success. This process of assessment as a verb, combined with collegial exploration of the information the assessing produced, aligns with my favorite PLC question: "What do the students ne…
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Leading Schools That Move Students From Access to Success
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Experienced teacher, head of school and the author of "The Landscape Model of Learning," Jennifer D. Klein, describes how schools build learning communities where students belong and thrive because they are supported for their experiences, gifts, and challenges. How do coaches with school leaders guide teachers to explore understanding learners as …
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Confidentiality in a coaching program can be complicated. For many teachers, knowing that coaching conversations are confidential makes it easier for them to explore what really matters. At the same time, school leaders want to build an environment of trust where the issue of confidentiality becomes increasingly less important. Teachers and leaders…
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Explore how teachers and students can be empowered with the implementation of student documented learning. Jennifer D. Klein, teacher, administrator, and author of "The Landscape Model of Learning: Designing Student-Centered Experiences for Cognitive and Cultural Inclusion," provides examples across grade levels. Her concrete examples illustrate th…
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Building and Earning Trust as a Coach
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As teachers’ relationships with those providing coaching grow from a foundation of trust, teacher vulnerability and risk-taking increase which positively impacts teacher growth. I had an earlier opportunity to explore earning trust and building trust with Jonathan Mueller, an experienced international school leader. He shares that when you can buil…
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Addressing Educator Burnout: Self Care in Not Enough
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In his book, "Triage Your School: A Physician’s Guide to Preventing Burnout," Dr. Chris Jenson provides specific actions school leaders and coaches can take to address the elements of chronic stress for teachers and themselves. Combining his years as a doctor in an emergency room with his years teaching high school science, Dr. Jenson has a unique …
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Teachers Building Students' SEL Skills
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The author of "Teaching With The Heart in Mind," Dr. Lorea Martínez, who was a special education teacher and school administrator and worked with children and adults internationally, provides reinforcement for the value of purposefully planning for embedding SEL skills in the classroom, beyond teaching the SEL curriculum. She guides educators to pr…
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Accountability is a broader concept than responsibility - it’s something you do to yourself, not something that someone does to you. A focus on responsibility can create attitudes where people justify the ways they think and act to "cover their tails" which pulls in the opposite direction of achieving organizational or team results. With accountabi…
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Coaching Teachers Building Agile Classrooms
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Agile education coach and the founder of The Agile Mind, Jessica Cavallaro, describes why students and teachers benefit from working with Agile teaching and learning processes. Jessica shares how she works with teachers and administrators to integrate agile principles and the rewards that everyone can experience. E-mail Jessica: jessica@the-agile-m…
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Addressing Chronic, Overwhelming Work-related Stress...Burnout
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Dr. Chris Jenson combines his experiences as an ER physician followed by ten years as a high school science teacher to provide a unique look at work-related stress and burnout. He identifies that while self-care is good, it is insufficient. In his book, "Triage Your School," Chris states that educators gave health providers the problem-solving skil…
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Leading With Empathy and Inclusivity
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Listen as Dr. Lorea Martinez, Columbia University Teachers College faculty member, founder of HEART in Mind, and author of "Teaching With the Heart in Mind," provides guidelines for supporting teachers in building students’ social emotional learning skills. Identify how developing your own SEL skills supports your leadership and instructional coach…
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Exploring the Why of Instructional Coaching
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Simon Senik’s advice to focus communicating the WHY of your organization before the how and what has a direct application to a staff’s understanding of “why” an investment in instructional coaching would be made. Decisions about a coaching model, the selection of coaches, the training provided to coaches, as well as the expectations for administrat…
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Agile Classrooms for Student and Teacher Empowerment
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Agile Classrooms provide for student-centered learning, collaboration, iteration, continuous feedback, and adaptability. Experienced teacher and Agile coach, Jessica Cavallaro, describes how Agile revolutionized her teaching practice and shares how teachers can create classrooms where students are active participants, planning alongside teachers, m…
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Another Look At Educator Beliefs and Behaviors
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"Stop Saying These Kids Don’t Care About School." That’s the title of an op-ed piece written by podcast guest Laurie Putnam, superintendent in St Cloud, MN. Laurie identifies how this sentence buries the real challenges and daily struggles that many of her students’ face. That belief undermines our collective responsibilities to nurture future gene…
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Thanks to staff at PLS3rdLearning and scores of educators and authors, we are celebrating our 500th podcast! We took a few minutes to share our experiences with you. It has been exciting to have my learning extended as we created an opportunity to ponder about teaching and learning with guests and listeners. Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders O…
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Exploring Student Learning With Teachers
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Liz Keable, a specialist in guiding increased student leaning through metacognition practices, provides insights and suggestions for supporting and coaching teachers. "If we want to have a real impact on the next generation, there is one thing vastly more important than our teaching, and that is their learning.” You’ll find “look fors” and question…
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Educators’ Beliefs Drive Educators’ Behaviors
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Kyle Coppes, a secondary principal, shares the thinking behind an opinion piece he wrote titled, "Student Laziness Is a Myth. Here’s Why" - "The belief that laziness exists will limit the behavior of any teacher who encounters it, and that is harmful. Essentially, it is a teacher’s get-out-of-jail-free card: If a student does not complete a task on…
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Heather Lyon, the author of, "Engagement is Not a Unicorn, It’s a Narwahl" and "The Big Book of Engagement Strategies," shares her insights on student engagement and teacher strategies from her new book, "50 Ways to Engage Students with Google Apps." Teachers' knowledge and understanding of pedagogical choices is key to tech tools tapping student e…
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Communicating Interest and Positiveness in Coaching
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Just as teachers use a focus on communicating interest and positiveness to inspire, motivate, and foster a positive learning classroom environment, coaches need to communicate the same with their coachees. Interest and positiveness can impact an individual's self-esteem, motivation, and performance. Communicating interest and positiveness is not ju…
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With many years of experience as a Success Coach supporting the needs of vulnerable and disadvantaged students, Liz Keable provides concrete "do and don’t do" guidance for parents and caretakers. Learn ways to build students’ understanding of their own role in the learning process, their belief in their capability as a learner, and the internal mot…
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How do coaches increase teacher voice and reflection in post conferencing? Too often the coach’s voice can sound more like a report being given (similar to supervision conferences) rather than a conversation. You’ll gain some mindsets, strategies, and questions in this podcast. Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or vi…
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Honoring the Art and Science of Teaching
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What happens when the marathon of teaching - the long rewarding journey with its share of challenges becomes an unending obstacle course laden with ever-changing rules and unseen hurdles? Jason McKenna, an experienced teacher, author and current VP at VEX Robotics explores this question. Read Jason's article, "Embracing the Teaching Marathon with J…
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What do you want grades to communicate? What do you want to be sure that your grading doesn’t do? When grades are used to teach life lessons, such as responsibility, or punctuality, the intrinsic value of learning for its own sake can be diminished. Does the lack of consistency among teachers’ use of grading create a grade fog because we are asking…
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Leading With Curiosity, Questions, and Deep Listening
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According to a Harvard Business Review article, "curiosity helps employees engage more deeply in their work, generate new ideas, and share those ideas with others." Certainly, these are all benefits we would want for staff in our schools. The questions that leaders and coaches use can support tapping into curiosity. Find out why "what" is a good st…
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Evidence Feedback to Promote Educator Learning
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When we are engaged in growing and learning as educators to reach a student success goal, reflecting on evidence gathered along the way is key both to the goal’s success and to educator learning. Evidence that shows changes in teacher actions and in student learning production behaviors should appear before changes in learning outcomes. With school…
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Reinvigorating Passion and Joy at the Heart of Teaching
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Jason McKenna explores five strategies that can assist teachers in focusing on the joy and passion in teaching: creating a not to do list, embracing periods of unproductivity, redefining success metrics, prioritizing dialogue over data, and protecting personal time diligently. Read Jason's article, "Embracing the Teaching Marathon with Joy and Well…
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Engaging in Physical Activities for Life (Physical Literacy)
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How important is physical literacy, the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities for life? Anthony DeGiorgio reminds us that the relationship students develop with movement and physical activity often sets the tone for their future. Physical liter…
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You've Got to Believe and They Need to Know That You Do
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Research reinforces that teachers providing feedback to students that demonstrates the teacher's belief in the students' abilities (high expectations) can generate student learning behaviors that positively impact student's success. Additional teacher actions such as active listening, knowing them individually, celebrating, and being accessible are…
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Coaching Questions for Finding Out, Reflection, and Exploring Future Actions
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When coaches are conscious of the purposes of the questions they ask in coaching sessions, their questions are clearer and they can better focus on listening. That listening allows the coach to follow the teacher because the next questions emerge from that listening. Finding out questions provide the coach with an understanding behind the teacher’s…
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Supporting Teachers’ Exploration of AI for Teaching and Learning
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School leaders' own engagement and modeling of AI is important to support teachers in successfully initiating AI opportunities for teaching and learning. How can instructional coaches introduce and model AI use in their coaching activities with teachers? What might a school or district position statement on AI contain? Technology and design leaders…
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How Much Thinking Are Students Doing?
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Thinkers are characterized by their curiosity, willingness to explore different approaches, and the ability to think critically about a task. Thinking generates learning. The question for us as teachers is "How much thinking are our students doing?” Students who succeed in school by mimicking may get acceptable grades but are often set up for futur…
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The Path for Women in School Leadership
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Kim Cofino, the author of, "Finding Your Path As a Woman in School Leadership: A Guide for Educators, Allies, and Advocates," shares insights from interviews she conducted with over 70 successful female school leaders. Her discoveries are important to female educators at different stages in their leadership development and roles. Equally important,…
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Strengthening Professional and Organizational Capacity
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Allie Rodman, the founder of The Learning Loop and author of "Still Learning: Strengthening Professional and Organizational Capacity," explores critical elements for teacher, team, and organizational learning. Consider the roles of stillness, pause and reflection in generating educator learning. Explore learning as an individual educator, team memb…
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Kylie Hand and Jennifer Baron, from the Innovative Educational Services Division at Chester County Intermediate Unit in PA, share opportunities for teachers to partner with AI to impact student learning. They discuss options for teachers getting ready to explore as well as teachers who are engaged in "what’s possible.” Many resources ranging from s…
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“If a leader wants to be seen as trustworthy, he or she needs to build a connection through rapport”, shares Mike Gilmour, elementary principal, and the author of "The Power of Rapport." Mike walks through six focus areas for building rapport, all of which can be consciously practices and coached: Body Language, Communication, Authenticity, Consist…
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We Need Professional Development Around Grading
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Author, teacher, and education policy doctoral candidate, Sarah Morris, explores the research around teachers’ grading decisions. Many teachers have received little if any professional development that produces reflection on the impact of their grading practices. The inequity of some grading practices cannot be decreased without teachers’ realizati…
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Prompting Students to Sketch to Learn
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Biology and Earth Science teacher and author, Wendi Pillars, provides a look at the power of sketching in teaching and learning. Sketching provides an opportunity for students to engage with content in a non-threating and low stakes world. Time for sketching can guide a synthesis of learning. Studies show that information is recalled exponentially …
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