I have the pleasure of working with talented and dedicated teachers who are:
- Starting afterschool robotics programs where the student excitement is infectious
- Exploring flipped instruction in math to provide opportunites for real-life application during classtime
- Starting off the quarter, piloting a completely standards-based gradebook for the first time
- Rethinking Language Arts curriculum from a social justice perspective to promote student voice within thier community
- Advocating for students to be known as their unique individual selves rather than a disability label
- Providing Project-Based Learning Opportunities to Students to increase access and engagement
- Collaborating with their Grade-level to improve student outcomes
- Creating cross-district teacher-led professional learning in math
- Integrating technology-based formative assessment practices into secondary classrooms
- Providing amazing ideas for Common Core professional learning for families, paraeducators, and our substitute teachers
This is just a glimpse of the awesome things teachers are doing for students on a daily basis. I am constantly inspired by conversations with our teachers and their deep commitment towards student well-being and learning, while engaging in continuous learning themselves, and doing all this with a sense of humor and maintaining perpspective on what's really important.
That's the best thing I do in my district position as an instructional coach. I am privileged to work with a great group of teachers who are doing amazing things for kids everyday. I hope to convince more and more of them begin sharing their EduStories!
