3 Ways to Strengthen Connections in Remote Environments

Ashley Taplin

Ashley Taplin

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How do you build and strengthen connections with teachers in remote learning environments, you ask? Ashley Taplin, math specialist in Texas, explains how she shares strategies, highlights best practices, and listens intentionally while working from both in-person and from afar.

  • Coaching with Compassion

    Megan Harding

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    Megan Harding, educational consultant in Omaha, NE, explores ways that coaches can cultivate compassion for themselves and those they work with, and how important it is now more than ever.

  • Weekly Coaching Roundup, Week 37: September 11, 2020

    TeachBoost Team

    Weekly Coaching Roundup - September 2020 (Half) (Seasonal)

    This week we learned how ICs can ease back into coaching after an absence, a few classroom discussion tips for engaging students, ideas for developing and maintaining relationships with students remotely, and more. Enjoy! 😀

  • Weekly Coaching Roundup, Week 19: May 8, 2020

    TeachBoost Team

    Weekly Coaching Roundup - May 2020 (Half) (Seasonal)

    This week we learned a few must-have attributes of ICs working remotely, why educators should focus on relationships with their students, one coach's four guiding principles for coaching, and more. Enjoy! 😀

  • The Power of Affirmation

    Jenna Moller

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    Jenna Moller, instructional coach in Illinois, shares why affirmation is important—both in our personal and professional lives—and how taking a moment to acknowledge others every day fosters strong coaching relationships.

  • My Journey From Coach Back to Teacher Specialist

    Jason MacDonald

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    Jason MacDonald, elementary school teacher and former instructional coach, reflects on how his experience as an IC paved his transition back into the classroom as not just a teacher, but a teacher specialist.

  • The Causes of Coaching Reluctance

    Cailin Minor

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    TeachBoost continues to ask instructional coaches what tools they include in their instructional coaching toolbox as part of our TeachBoost series, Your Coaching Toolbox—resources, tips, and reflections for instructional coaches, by instructional coaches.

    In part one of her two-part series, Cailin Minor, literacy coach at Shanghai American School in China, first dissects the causes for teachers feeling "stuck" and reluctant towards coaching.

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