Connecting the Dots: Building Digital Pathways to Meaningful Relationships

Margaret Harris-Shoates & Kimberly Eure

Margaret Harris-Shoates & Kimberly Eure

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If you're looking for new and creative ways to build relationships with your staff this year, look no further! Margaret Harris-Shoates, district edtech coordinator, and Kimberly Eure, instructional technology coach, both in Virginia, provide four techniques to create meaningful connections with teachers in both remote and in-person settings.

  • Embodying a Coaching Mindset

    Miriam Guerrero Cheuk

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    Are you looking to dive below the surface in your coaching conversations? Miriam Guerrero Cheuk, district IC in Virginia, highlights four ways to build a genuine connection with teachers through life-giving coaching conversations.

  • Increase Peer Observation with Pineapple Charts

    Jennifer Conley

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    Jennifer Conley, instructional coach in Indiana, encourages the use of "pineapple charts" to help teachers show hospitality in their classrooms and inspire a school-wide culture of collaborative professional development. ๐Ÿ

  • Use a Coaching Brochure to Showcase All You Do as a Coach

    Casey Watts

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    Brochures are a fantastic way to showcase how your partnership with teachers can help them grow. Casey Watts, IC in Texas, shares some of her must-have sections to include in your own brochure, as well as some tips for distributing them to teachers.

  • Weekly Coaching Roundup, Week 22: June 4th, 2021

    TeachBoost Team

    Weekly Coaching Roundup - June 2021 (Seasonal)

    Welcome back! We started June by learning 11 apps to promote home-to-school connections, a few remote coaching and teaching strategies that your peers plan to continue using when they return to in-person learning, and more. Enjoy!

  • February 2021 Instructional Coaching Must-Reads

    TeachBoost Team

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    The groundhog may have brought some bad news earlier this month, but your friends here at TeachBoost have something that may cheer you up: the topic articles from February's weekly coaching roundups. ๐Ÿ‘ Learn five techniques for making the most of online instruction, how you can showcase your impact as an IC, a few strategies for building relationships with teachers (beyond chocolate ๐Ÿซ), the benefits of digital coaching menus, and more. Enjoy!

  • How to Help Teachers Manage Their Stress and Anxiety

    Shelby Denman & Kiala Albright

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    Being an educator can be incredibly stressful at times and the shift to remote work has only amplified this. Luckily, Shelby Denman and Kaila Albright generously provided a few ways to identify teacher stressors as well as some different techniques for coping with them. ๐Ÿ’†โ€โ™€๏ธ

  • 5 Tips to Make the Most of Your Virtual Conferences

    Brandy Alexander

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    While in-person conferences and PD can have a lot of advantages, Brandy Alexander, elementary instructional specialist in the Houston, TX area, believes you can still get the same relationship and connection-building benefits during virtual conferences. Read her five suggestions for knocking your next virtual event out of the park. โšพ

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