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  • What’s a Learning Coach?

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    A learning coach is not a teacher. Most public-school teachers utilize lesson planning, which includes instructional strategies, to present a state-approved curriculum to their students. Most of those strategies are judged successful or not by a state-approved standardized test at the end of a teaching cycle, usually 36 weeks. A learning coach creates a learning…

  • Learning Pods: The New One Room Schoolhouse

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    A few months ago, the Center for Reforming Public Education (CRPE) released a report titled “Crisis Breeds Innovation: Pandemic Pods and the Future of Education. In the report, authors Ashley Jochim and Jennifer Poon’s research offered the first in-depth look at families’ and educators’ experiences with pandemic pods, drawing upon a national survey of 152…

  • Have You Ever Used a Learner Whiteboard?

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    In yesterday’s column, I described The Game Plan as a way to organize your learning. But The Game Plan is a long and rather unwieldy document, so we need to streamline the weekly learning process a bit. The Learner Whiteboard and Learner Whiteboard Part 2 are better ways to organize your learning goals over the…

  • Everyone Needs a Learning Plan

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    Last week I wrote a column focused on the The Scouting Report. To review, The Scouting Report introduces a learning assessment process that asks you where you are with your own learning. It can be used by both adults and young adults alike. It is the first step in establishing a true personalized learning plan.…

  • If You Don’t Believe Me, Ask Bev

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    I’ve been accused of being a grim reaper of sorts when it comes to my public education outlook. My critics tell me that nothing is ever good enough when it comes to these places we call school. Well, if wanting the best for our kids when it comes to their learning and at the same…

  • Friday News Roundup…

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    It’s Friday! Time for another installment of the “Friday News Roundup.” Let’s get to it! The U.S. Suffers From a Substitute Teacher Shortage (NPR) According to a NPR story earlier this week, schools don’t have enough short-term teachers to fill in the gaps for regular teachers missing a day. District in Illinois are now holding…

  • Best of the Best: School’s Out!

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    I know I promised a column on The Learning Plan today, the step after The Scouting Report, but a request for “Best of the Best” came in and should take priority. So, I’m sharing “School’s Out,” an article I wrote with a group of forward learning thinkers awhile back. The Learning Plan column will be…

  • Do You Know Where You Are with Your Own Learning?

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    For a learning plan to be effective, you must start with a personal needs assessment determining where you currently when it comes to the learning skills you want to improve on. A few years ago, I was fortunate to partner with Matt Barnes, a dedicated parent coach and learning creator, in Texas to launch The…

  • It’s Time to Draw a Line in the Sand

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    The traditional urban school district is broken, can’t be fixed, and must be replaced. Andy Smarick, Urban School Systems of the Future, 2012 People were shocked when Andy Smarick wrote this about America’s urban school districts 10 years ago. But today, very few urban school districts have shown any noticeable progress in getting black, brown,…

  • Friday News Roundup…

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    Welcome to A Better Path to Learning’s first “Friday News Roundup,” where we review the news that impacts your access to better learning. Teacher Job Satisfaction Hits an All-Time Low (EdWeek) According to the Merrimack College Teacher Survey released this week, only 12% of the more than 1,300 teachers surveyed said they were “very satisfied”…