How Can Teachers Measure Their Professional Growth?

When taking a deeper look into what teachers are teaching, will we see it from the student’s perspective? Why haven’t we altered the curriculum based on student desire, current trends, and social issues?

Coaching Strategies, Professional Development, Administrative SupportCassandra WilliamsApril 22, 2022Educational Innovation 360Teacher goals, TEacher, Studnet success, Teacher Supporting studnets, goals, teacher retention, professional growth, teaching and learning, SEL, Professional development, professional learning, curriculum change, access to the curriculum

Frequent Feedback Prevents New Teacher Failure

What happens when new teachers leave immediately from school? We are starting to see an increase in new teachers leaving the classroom during their first year of teaching, this is hard when schools are already facing staff shortages due to the pandemic.

Watch Out: The World Is Doing Online Schooling; Does It Work For Your Population?

Online learning can be great but we are witnessing districts strugge to provide support to teachers in this new online space.

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Revamp your lessons: Nano Learning - The New Educational Teaching Method

We truly believe that learning can be both delivered in small bursts or lengthier content but as times change educators must change with the times and meet the needs of Our Gen Z students.

elearning, Professional Development, Administrative SupportEducational Innovation 360January 26, 2022Educational Innovation 360Nano-Learning, small bits of content, Professional development, teacher change, Nano, Modules, social media, Generation Z, Gen Z, Lesson PlanningComment

How to Guarantee Success: Set Smart Goals

Let this be the year where you set SMART goals for yourself as a teaching professional.

Intrinsic Motivation, Teacher Support, Administrative SupportEducational Innovation 360January 6, 2022Educational Innovation 360SMART, SMART goas, Teacher support, focus, professional learning, goals, student lead research, student growth, student success, Goals, New Year, Kick Starting the year off right

Building PD Through Learning Relationships: Situated Learning

In our teacher preparation programs, we must provide adequate experiences for our students so they understand that learning takes place through building relationships.

Reform, Coaching Strategies, Administrative SupportEducational Innovation 360December 29, 2021Educational Innovation 360Professional Development, Situated Learning, Relationships, TheoryComment

Reasons Why You Shouldn't Ignore The Four-Day School Week

Did you know that 560 school districts have at least one school with a four-day schedule? So if Colorado, New Mexico, and Idaho have embraced it, then what are you waiting for?

Reform, Professional Development, Administrative SupportEducational Innovation 360December 2, 2021Educational Innovation 360Professional development, Four day week, Academic performance, Teacher PD, Saving money, District cutting down on costComment

What are the Long-Term Benefits of Teaching Social-Emotional Skills in Elementary School

Why should we teach social-emotional skills in elementary school? This article examines the long-term benefits of SEL programs.

Intrinsic Motivation, Social Emotional Learning, Administrative SupportCassandra WilliamsNovember 18, 2021Educational Innvoation 360SEL, SEL Programs, Social Emotional Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School, High Needs Students, Student Well being, Commentary, Distance Learning, Social and Emotional Learning, CAssandra Williams, Covid19 Comments

Undeniable Proof That Blended Learning will Become The Next Trend In Education

Blended learning programs are a great educational method to teach some of society's most vulnerable populations… so what has your school done to change?

What Research Can Teach Us About Student Achievement And How Middle School Culture Affects It

Even though there is no clear connection between middle school culture and predicting AYP scores; something must be done to transform the next generation.

Reform, Transformation, Administrative SupportEducational Innovation 360October 22, 2021Educational Innvoation 360Middle school, Tranformation, Maurice Elias, Research, reform

We Are In Trouble; Principal Turnover Has Become The Norm

Principals are vital to school success and we know that they play a huge role in retaining effective teachers so why aren’t they staying?

School Principal, Blog, Administrative SupportCassandra WilliamsSeptember 1, 2021Educational Innvoation 360Principals, Tenure, transformation, school leader, leadership, leadership roles, vision, school reform, Princpal pipelineComment

Enough Already! Let's Rethink Middle School We're Tired of This Not Working

Children who do not have a solid foundation in Elementary and are encouraged in Middle School have extremely low turnouts in college so… why hasn’t it changed?

Reform, Blog, Administrative SupportCassandra WilliamsAugust 26, 2021Educational Innvoation 360Middle School, The Middle School Initiative, Change in Behavior, Career Path, K12, Students, IEP, real-world, RedesignComment

Where Are The Teacher Training Programs for Future learning?

Many teachers in the world are taking it upon themselves to train themselves and others in their building in online education.

Reform, elearning, Administrative SupportCassandra WilliamsAugust 13, 2021Educational Innvoation 360future, Learning, Training, Future Learning, Programs, Online learning, Online teacher, effective online teaching practices, Online engagement, Online spaces, Diversity in delivery, Online pedagogyComment

Some Acquired The Value-Added Model (VAM) and many still don't trust it!

The idea of evaluating teachers in the next 10 years seems like a stretch due to the teacher shortage and the Covid19 pandemic but we still have these systems in place, so how are you adapting?

Districts Decide A Design For A Teacher Evaluation System – The Old Way Failed

The older evaluation systems failed at both levels leaving teachers with little or no support on how to improve and did nothing to identify struggling/low-performing teachers. So, what have we done to change it?

The Important Of The Position And Its Effect On A School: Are You An Effective Principal?

Principals tend to spend an average of 12.6 percent of their time on instruction-related activities which is worrisome because classroom walkthroughs only account for 5.4 percent of a principal’s time. (NCES)

School Principal, Blog, Administrative SupportCassandra WilliamsJanuary 21, 2021Educational Innovation 360Principals, principal, school leader, Mentorship, coach, coaching, school leadership, teacher turnover, sustainability, strengths, turnover, role-play, retention

How Successful Principals Make the Most of Their Conversations: Ei360 and The Danielson Framework

The Danielson Framework is a tool for supporting teaching, Ei360 works through conferences between teachers and principals that would lay the foundation for developing strategies for improving student participation.

When a School Changes the way things are done: BrightWorks Arc School

What happens when you allow students the opportunity to explore? At Brightworks, a student might get cut, have bloody knuckles, or get a nasty bruise but students are allowed to be curious and build while using tools and solving real-world problems.