Caring About vs. Caring For
Travel to schools across the country, and you’ll see it’s clear that teachers are working hard and truly care about their students. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be doing this job day after day. When I walk through buildings and talk with teachers, I hear and sense this. However, when it comes to what care actually looks […]
Punishment or Restorative Practices: The Only Two Choices in School Climate?
For more than a year, I have been struck by the ongoing school discipline “wars.” Sometimes the fight seems as much a war of semantics as of approaches and beliefs. Perhaps it is not a new fight, but for the first time in my two-plus decades in education, I feel we could be on the […]
Top 8 Tips for New Teachers That You Probably Haven’t Considered
Here are some teacher guidance tips for new teachers. Being a first-year teacher is rewarding, challenging, and filled with lessons that you plan for your students and that you learn from yourself. While your first year is likely to include late night planning, anxiety with each classroom observation, and tons of trial and error, there […]
Supporting & Coaching Teachers in Effective Co-Teaching Models
Like many, I had challenges as a child. One of the biggest challenges I had to overcome came around the second grade when everyone discovered I really couldn’t read. I had gotten by on my boyish charm, knowing just a few words! The next few years of school would prove to be challenging, embarrassing and […]
The No-Nonsense Nurturer® Leader: Behaviors for Transformational School Leadership
A healthy culture is the essential foundation for any high-performing organization. While it is the collective responsibility of all adults in the school to develop, share, and protect it, the process of building this foundation is anchored heavily in the behaviors, habits, and mindsets of its leaders (Coyle, 2018). All leaders feed the culture of […]
Classroom Management for Engagement, Empowerment, and Achievement
Classroom management issues lead many of the schools and districts that I work with to seek outside support, such as our approach here at CT3. However, the ultimate goal of classroom management is not to achieve compliance or control, but to provide all students with equitable opportunities for learning (Weinstein, Tomlinson-Clarke and Curran, 2004). To that […]
4 Ways to Build Relationships with Teachers
Building relationships is an important first step during coaching, and the trust created leads to more successful and impactful coaching cycles. Here are my top four relationship-building strategies that I found helpful as a Real Time Teacher Coach to start your coaching relationship off right: 1) Prep your coaching artifacts to share with teachers. I just […]
4 Steps to Classroom Turnaround: How do you turn around a class that you’ve let get out of control?
Transform My Classroom: I recently walked into a classroom to hear a teacher tell a student across the room “Jason, you’re on step 6 on the consequence chart.” It was only 9:40 am! I wondered to myself what this student could have possibly done so wrong to be on step 6 of 7 so early […]
Meet Our Team: Nataki Gregory
In this blog series, we are interviewing members of the CT3 team about their background in education as well as the expertise that they each bring to their work with educators across the country. Why did you want to become an educator? Being an educator was never part of my plan. I wanted to be […]
A Powerful Paradigm Shift for Educators
Given the amount of time teachers and students spend together over the course of a year, relationships between the educators and students will form. It is inevitable. How productive those relationships are for both teachers and students, is left to question. Understanding the tendencies of teachers who are not No-Nonsense Nurturers may support you to […]
