Using the 10/100/1,000 Exercise to Improve Your Time Management

Jeff GargasBlog, Classroom Management, Innovation, Leadership, Professional Development, Self-Care, Teach Happier, Teacherpreneur, Video(s)

Jeff Gargas discusses how to use the “10/100/1,000” exercise to improve your time management.  [scroll down to keep reading] Time management has always been an issue with me. The line between what’s important and what is essential can oftentimes become so blurry. A few months ago, a friend of mine recommended the High Performance Planner by Brendon Burchard. This … Read More

Effective Decision Making: Using Core Values as the Filter

Teach Better TeamBlog, Classroom Management, Leadership, Professional Development

TL;DR: Reflecting on our core values helps us filter through the decisions we make to ensure they are purposeful and effective. Involving team members in decision making can help to increase the likelihood that all members support the outcome. Using core values to make decisions helps to prevent decision-making fatigue. Research shows that adults make an average of 35,000 decisions per … Read More

Personalized Learning for Professional Development

Jacqueline GoodburnBlog, Edtech, Professional Development

In This Post: Ways to improve your professional development days by including personalized teacher learning! The importance of useful, relevant professional development. Specific suggestions on how to include teacher voice and choice in professional learning. Professional development often becomes the running joke when teachers get together. They comment on how the speakers had great ideas, and then the speakers were … Read More

5 Out of the Box Ways to Engage TEACHERS in Professional Development

Teach Better TeamBlog, Innovation, Leadership, Professional Development, Student Engagement

In This Post: As a Student Learning Coach, providing meaningful professional development for my teachers is so important. There are 5 out of the box ways to engage teachers in PD. What better way to guide discussions than by leading with the students? Inviting students in and having teachers watch drives engagement. Google Classroom isn’t limited to your class, it … Read More