Instructional Leadership

TeachFX Office Hours | The Power of Reflection and Feedback to Drive Instructional Leadership Featuring Daniel Bauer, Chief Ruckus Maker of Better Leaders Better Schools and Jamie Poskin, CEO and co-founder of TeachFX — and k12 leaders from around the nation

TeachFX Office Hours | Dr. Amanda Conley discusses a first-year principal’s perspective on evolving as an instructional leader, how principals can provide compassionate and candid feedback that helps teachers advance their instructional practices, and how partnering with TeachFX has helped Amanda and her teachers with personalized PL and the objective feedback provided via the TeachFX app.

Why is it so difficult for schools to make positive change? Education historian Larry Cuban finds that few school reform efforts over the past century have had much effect on what teachers do and how students experience school. Through our partnerships, TeachFX takes a different approach.

It seems we’ve fully moved on from talking about getting our schools and our students back to normal. There is no back. And, if we’re honest, there has never been a “normal.” There’s only change. And as we navigate this constant – and constantly accelerating – change, many of us are now asking: What is school for? Have you been wrestling with this question, too?

Experimental research (Saunders & Goldenberg, 2009) demonstrates that students who talk more learn more when that talk is focused on higher-order thinking. Here, we explore three talk moves teachers can try to help facilitate instructional conversations that support higher-order thinking.

Veteran teachers and their school site administrators share a common challenge: how to make teacher evaluation more meaningful, less tense…