The Radical Learners Blog
The Radical Learners blog features articles and interviews of people who:
- believe we are here on earth to learn
- use technology to learn, teach, & lead (and because it’s cool)
- know that to teach without hope is to damage, but to teach with hope can save the world
- don’t blame others but accept personal responsibility for whatever task they take on
- infect everybody with their love of learning; most important, the children they teach
Blog Posts
A Quick Note About Our New Coaching Environments
Pexels We’re fairly certain you’ve all been feeling a bit of anxiety as all of us adjust to the new normal, and we wanted to take a moment to tell you you’re doing a great job. Try to give yourself grace. Remember that a lot of us are teaching in new environments,...
Refining the Impact Cycle: Balancing Telling With Asking When Explaining Strategies
Since The Impact Cycle was published in 2018, my colleagues at the Instructional Coaching Group and I have been working to make the cycle easier and more powerful. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing those refinements. Today’s topic is “Dialogical...
Coaching, Fear, and the High School Teacher
I’m not much of a party person. I like to be home, and although I can engage with pretty much anyone, on a Saturday night, I’d rather not. I wasn’t always this way, but my years as a high school teacher made me wary of people in social situations. Once the question...
Identity Shift: Kim Richardson Tells Us How Coaches Can Deal With Change
Kim Richardson, Teaching Learning Coaching 2020 presenter One of the key things Dr. Kim has learned is the importance of being comfortable with navigating and leading change. Coaches have to deal with a lot of variables in their work, and a willingness to adapt...
What We’ve Learned about Culturally Responsive Teaching from Zaretta Hammond
Zaretta Hammond has over 20 years of experience in education, and has dedicated her life’s work to the issue of equity in the classroom, and to answering an important question: How do we get students to be the leaders of their own learning? For Zaretta,...
Partnering, not Prodding: Autonomy and the New Teacher
I trust the young. In a world that consistently criticizes the generations behind it, I believe that younger people have so much to offer in the hope that comes with new ideas and limitless possibility. The younger voices I value are not just those of students...
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