Blog Archives – Page 4 of 23

A Year Spent Reflecting on Reflection

March 11, 2024 | Stephanie Vollmer

Developmentally, seven and eight-year-olds are known to race through activities. Unsurprisingly, early in the school year, I noticed students rushed through their work in all academic areas and were quick to move on. I also noticed that while...

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One Small Step For The Teacher, One Giant Leap For The Students

March 11, 2024 | Sierra Balatan

It’s that time of the day again: All BLOCK, when small groups of students rotate to do differentiated work with me while the rest work independently to complete five All BLOCK activities. To myself I...

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Collaboration Brings Authentic Learning to Quality Program Improvement

January 30, 2024 | Nina Portugal

As Vallejo City Unified School District Site Coordinators entered their monthly professional development with Lead by Learning the room was immediately abuzz with conversations about their sites. Since 2021, Lead by Learning has been a partner...

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When Middle Schoolers Can’t Read: Let the Data Lead Your Inquiry

January 30, 2024 | Christi Grossman

Their reading scores were hard to believe. The 6th-grade students who sat in front of me–Arelcy, Edvin, Julian, and twins Antonio and Ernesto*–were excellent students. They had good attendance, attention, behavior, and effort, but, according to the scores...

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Cutting Through the Noise: Listening, a Tool for Self-Advocacy in Elementary Music Classrooms

January 30, 2024 | Jonah Andreatta

Life as a perfectionist can be tough. Life as a perfectionist teacher can be overwhelming. When you add in the fact that a huge portion of my job is teaching instrumental music to fourth and fifth graders, you...

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Increasing Agency for Black Male Students Through Leadership

January 12, 2024 | Jared Crayton-Thomas

“Do you think students should get suspended at all?” I asked Deantae* during an interview about school. Without hesitation, he responded, “Not really because they are going to miss more days of school. Maybe after-school detention...

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Developing a Teacher-Leader: The Importance of Self-Efficacy, Flexibility, and Collaboration

December 8, 2023 | Ramany Kaplan

This past school year brought many changes to my role on campus. As the ELA intervention coordinator at Dublin High School, I took a department-wide approach in addressing student learning needs through tiered supports: identifying strong teaching practices...

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Building the Boat While Trying to Sail It: Rolling Out a New Professional Learning Community Plan

December 8, 2023 | Whitney Dwyer

“I found today’s training truly unhelpful. We as teachers were asked to figure out how to solve equity in schools without any tools, strategies, or best practices. If we knew ways to improve equity, we would be implementing...

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Four teacher scholars look at video data of student learning

Lead by Learning Alumni Network

December 5, 2023 | Charley Brooks

Last month, Lead by Learning hosted our second Alumni Connect meet-up event and reconnected past Lead by Learning participants with their roots in inquiry! Designed to be 1-hour professional learning experiences, alums have an opportunity to...

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Lead by Learning’s Anti-Racist Affinity Networks

November 9, 2023 | Malia Tayabas-Kim and Charley Brooks

In 2021-22 Lead by Learning started the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Leaders Network (BLN) in order to create space for BIPOC leaders to share their lived experiences without having to defend, manage other’s feelings or excuse the actions...

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