Working as an Instructional Coach is a delicate balance of learning how to balance being a coach who frequently talks teachers “off the ledge” and not losing your teaching credibility.  On one hand you’re still a teacher because many times  you find yourself in classrooms helping a teacher with a particular lesson, but  other times […]
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Adventures in Coaching..Giving Effective Teacher Feedback
This year I did what many teachers fear the most,  I went over to the dark side of school administration in the form of  being an Instructional Coach. As  I transitioned into this role,I thought surely that this would give me more time to reflect and “cool my heels” -things that I rarely were able […]
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Ask The Educator’s Room: What do I do about all my absent teachers?
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to The Educator’s Room advice column for teachers! Today we’re helping a teacher who’s less than excited about teaching a former student. We’re also helping a teacher who is trying to support trans and gender non-conforming students at her Christian school. See […]
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Ask The Educator’s Room – Sleeping Students and End of Year Feels
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to our brand new advice column! Today we’re helping a teacher who got a poor reaction to a note home and another teacher dealing with some end-of-school-year sadness. See what our writers have to say, then share your […]
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The Educator’s Room is a diverse, sustainable media brand focused on telling the stories of being an educator. Over the past several years, The Educator’s Room has built a family of sites covering education from the lens of news, technology, entertainment, and teacher mental health. The company runs one conference, the Teacher Self-Care Conference for […]
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We Need to Understand Culturally Responsive Practices to Build Relationships
Patrice Morgan, Ed.D, is an Instructional Coach for beginner teachers and an Assistant Professor in the Education Program at Kingsborough Community College located in Brooklyn, NY. The majority of her teaching focuses on supervised field courses preparing pre-service teachers to enter classrooms in a professional manner with the confidence needed to engage the minds of […]
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Opinion: Insurrection on a Black Educator’s Soul
By Tina Starks, Instructional Coach and policy fellow with Teach Plus CA Just two weeks after the failed coup at the Capitol and added trauma on the souls of Black people, Inauguration Day 2021 symbolized the restoration of hope and possibilities for a different America than what we had experienced for the last four years. […]
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We’re Just People Who Don’t Want To Be Killed! A Student Reflection About Insurrection
By Tina Starks, Instructional Coach and policy fellow with Teach Plus, CA A piece of our worth was stolen today. It’s January 6, 2021, and a mob brandishing the flag of the Confederacy as well as the campaign flags of the outgoing President stormed into the Senate Chamber. The trauma of seeing a respectful treatment […]