Instructional Coach Weekly Update
Weeks of April 4-8
Strategy Spotlight
Who inspires you? As educators we are always trying to inspire our students, but today I want to share someone who inspires me.
Jimmy has a blog called - Passion... Purpose... Pride and he writes candidly about some very relevant educational topics. His most recent blog post (Phone Calls Home: "I'm Not Going to Lie...They Scare Me") was about communicating with parents. He asks the question, "I wonder if all school communities would be stronger if…." and then goes on to list 10 things that could be done to potentially strengthen our home-school communication with parents.
It's a quick read and I challenge you to reflect on your own communication practices (and this is for all teachers - not just homeroom teachers!). Do your student's parents know what is going on in your classroom? How often do you communicate with parents? Do positive communications go home for each student on a frequent basis? How many of the things on Jimmy's list do you feel like you/our school already does? Can you/our school make any improvements?
Last Week
- Writing lessons in 4th grade
- Math lessons in 4th grade
- Math lessons in 3rd grade
- Drop in observations
- Team planning meetings
- Check in's with teachers
- Planning and preparing resources and materials for teachers
- NTC Tools
- Updating Intervention google docs and data docs
This Week
- Teaching/Co-teaching daily math lessons in 4th grade
- Teaching/Co-teaching daily math lessons in 3rd grade
- Small group work in writing in a 4th grade classroom
- Team planning meetings
- NTC tool updates
- Several literacy webinars
- Reading assessments in 5th grade
- Helping write an IRA for 4th grade
- Arranging ELA observations for teachers to observe each other
- Move classroom... never mind... just kidding... BUILD THE ROAD :)