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Podcast: How Idaho is Exceeding Expectations and Driving Student Achievement Gains in Schools
Posted January 13th, 2010 in Podcasts, Success Stories
Lisa Kinnaman won’t come out and say it, but – in terms of school improvement – the schools and districts who are participating in her projects are thriving.
(Scroll down to the podcast link at the bottom to skip straight to the good stuff.)
As the State School Improvement Coordinator for Idaho, Kinnaman has been hard at work over the past few years figuring out how to get the most out of improvement and professional development dollars. What she and the entire network of educators, administrators, coaches and leaders have done in that time is nothing short of impressive.
In this 24-minute podcast, I talk to her about the nuts and bolts of their program and Lisa lets us in on what’s made Idaho so successful.
She discusses:
- How they’ve strategically partnered with the state’s university network
- How they’ve engaged and trained a powerful contingent of distinguished educators to build capacity
- How they’ve grown the program to serve an astonishing 54 sites statewide
Student Learning Protocol in Action: A Case Study
Posted July 14th, 2009 in Strategies, Success Stories
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to catch up with Mitch Richards, a 4th Grade teacher at John Campbell Elementary in Selah School District about a program that they have been developing called the John Campbell Instructional Learning Cohort (JCILC).
The cohort is a grassroots movement by a group of teachers, led by Richards, who decided to take professional development into their own hands by coming up with a structure to benefit from observing one another. The tool of choice? Our recently developed Student Learning Protocol.
Richards was inspired after doing an observation a few years back: “It was an overwhelming learning experience for myself to be able to watch another classroom and then reflect back on my own teaching practices – and that really started the interest in observing and learning from each other.”
Podcast #3: Joy Landsdowne, Elementary School Principal
Posted May 29th, 2008 in Podcasts, Strategies, Success Stories, Tips
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We’ve been having some great conversations with people lately about our podcast series. Here’s what people are telling us: We Want More!
In the same way that we consistently hear teachers tell us how much they value having time to collaborate with their colleagues, it seems that most of you out there are eager to hear other schools tell their stories.
We’ll continue the series as long as we keep getting the kind of feedback that we’ve received so far, so if you enjoy hearing how other people have implemented PTL, please leave a comment or shoot us an email to let us know. We’d love to hear from you.
In Podcast #3, I talk to Joy Landsdowne of Glenwood Elementary School. We had a great discussion about how Glenwood got started with PTL, what they did to ensure universal buy-in, how they moved forward, and what kind of results that they’ve seen. This is a longer podcast at around 32 minutes long, but it’s one of our best yet, so we’ll hope you’ll find a corner of your day to listen along. If you’d rather have time to comb through the content slowly, you can download a transcript of the interview from our Resources Page.
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Podcast #2: Russ Waterman from Eastmont High School
Posted April 4th, 2008 in Motivation, News, Success Stories
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The feedback from our first podcast was overwhelming and since it was so clear that listening to other educators talk about implementation was so powerful, we put together another one for you.
This time I spoke to Russ Waterman, Assistant Principal at Eastmont High School. Russ and I had a chance to discuss how Eastmont High School has been able to start a teacher-driven, grass roots movement around Powerful Teaching and Learning.
The interview is about 15 minutes long and we’ll have a transcript available in the next day or two in case you’d prefer to read along. Use the tools at the bottom of this post to listen directly from this page or in a separate pop-up, however you’d prefer. I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback if you have a moment to leave a comment or send an email!
PTL in Wapato Middle School: Q&A with Linda Heade
Posted February 26th, 2008 in News, Success Stories
We recently began work with Wapato Middle School, and I had a chance to catch up with Linda Heade, the SIF at WMS, so she could give me some feedback about how the early stages of their implementation have been progressing. I thought I’d share our exchange – I was particularly interested in her feedback around why the program has been successful.
Spotlight on Implementation: How Brewster is Making Teaching and Learning More Powerful Than Ever
Posted May 4th, 2007 in Strategies, Success Stories, Tips
Implementation matters. That’s clear.
The number one question that I hear from the educators, administrators and school leaders that I talk to is, “What are other people doing with Powerful Teaching and Learning strategies and how are they making it work?” At this point, everyone’s seen the research, read the reports and studied the evidence. It’s clear that there are effective ways to begin to raise achievement scores and close traditional and predicted gaps. The problem isn’t knowing what to do, it’s knowing how to do it.
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