by Sharon Thomas | Aug 23, 2018 | Instructional Coaching, Uncategorized |
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. –Benjamin Jowett In our work with schools and coaches around the world, perhaps the most controversial Partnership Principle is praxis. Top-down accountability models are so engrained in education that...
by Sharon Thomas | Aug 16, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
Teachers make between 800 and 1,500 decisions a day. With the constant bombardment of students’ personal and learning needs (plus unexpected early dismissals, server problems, and parent calls), teachers often feel as though they live continually in the moment,...
by Sharon Thomas | Jul 26, 2018 | Instructional Coaching, Uncategorized |
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. –Viktor Frankl We believe in partnership. We believe (and adult learning research...
by Jim Knight | May 24, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
In my work, I meet a lot of coaches who are struggling because they can’t seem to fit what they do into their model for coaching. Sometimes this conflict arises because coaches have learned to be facilitative coaches when they are expected to be dialogical coaches. ...
by Jim Knight | May 17, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
Conversations will almost always fail when they involve what Michael Fullan refers to as judgmentalism. Fullan writes, “One of the ways not to develop capacity is through criticism, punitive consequences, or what I more comprehensively call judgementalism....
by Sharon Thomas | May 3, 2018 | Instructional Coaching, Uncategorized |
Accountability. Qualitative Feedback. Quantitative feedback. Data. Evaluation. These words loom over educators and schools every day. Often, these terms carry connotations of “reward and punishment” and “top-down management style,” concepts that are typically at odds...
