Favorite Quotes:
Inspire on...
Communication is not about speaking, it´s about listening.
Important Key Points:
-We make assumptions about the world around us based on sometimes incomplete or false information. Our truth impacts our behavior.
-Assumptions, even when based on sound research, can lead us astray.
-Most people can tell you what or how they are doing something, but they cannot articulate ¨WHY¨ they are doing it. (PURPOSE).
-Golden Circle: What, How, and Why?
-When the WHY is absent, an imbalance is produced and manipulations thrive.
Important Key Points:
-It is critical to assess where you are currently at, and what small marginal gains have been made over time. You can start with a small adjustment (start small).
Cognitive and Instructional Coaching
School settings should have an understanding of both types of coaching.
Cognitive Coaching: When you want help thinking about something such as looking over a lesson or activity. Start the school year with training on cognitive coaching for teachers in the fall. Needs to have a level of sustainability. Everyone huge baseline of cognitive coaching.
Coaching Conversations: Come after a school understands cognitive coaching. This is more in-depth and works with teachers to build their teaching capacity.
https://coacbetter.tv/episode-124/
Memorable Quotes
"Law in the books and life on the streets"
"It should not take a superhuman commitment by parents in order to make academic success happen for their child"
Interdisciplinary study of how various social structures, policies, and laws perpetuate inequities. It is a complicated area of study. We are not teaching this day to day in our classes. It is a code word used to show concern around how we are teaching various cultural issues and embedding equity in what we are doing in our schools?
Teachers do not have to give notice to parents when
they will be covering equity issues in the classroom.
When can and can't you discipline student speech?
When can and can't you discipline employee speech?
Public Concern?
Public Issue as an employee or a private citizen
"All students belong" policy
Employees must conduct themselves in alignment with their districts policies
Compensatory vs Recovery Services?
Compensatory Education
What is it?
A judicial equitable remedy in litigation to make families whole for educational loss related to IEP goals and objectives
Judicial Remedy
Decided by authority
Not determined by the IEP team
Compensatory Services
A new term
Determined by the IEP team
When school resume normal operations
FAPE = Free Appropriate Public Education
When to Provide?
If eval or eligibility were delayed
If services during pandemic were not appropriate
If some or all of IEP could not be implemented