An Uncertain Return Summer readings for professional development always appear exciting at first — there is so much hope and promise for change and innovation in that nascent stage of planning. And throughout our extended year of distance...
When the 2021-2022 school year began, there seemed a palpable sense of cautious optimism that the new school year would remain challenging yet it would be “better” and more “normal” than the previous one disrupted by a global...
“When the math is getting more difficult, what happens internally?” I asked one of my 8th grade focal students. “Yeah… I get annoyed and stressed, and kind of angry, because I don’t understand it. I hate...
I remember sitting at my desk before the first bell of the 2021-2022 school year rang and just looking at my classroom. I waited for the excitement to kick in. It didn’t. Instead, I felt a sense of...
At Lead by Learning, we know that collaborative inquiry builds teachers’ and leaders’ local knowledge about how best to support their students’ and colleagues’ learning. By sharing that knowledge publicly, they develop a collective understanding of where their...
What would it look like to use our monthly professional development time to support our librarian community to grow as professionals? How can we be less reactive and operational and more proactive and adaptive?...
The first day of school last year and the screen was a mess! Parents were writing to the principal, students were complaining, and there was no order to the class. And worst of all, my internet was glitching...
For every partnership, Lead by Learning holds monthly design team meetings. In these meetings, Lead by Learning facilitates a conversation that invites educators to engage in design thinking to deepen adult learning in their system.
I opened my email one afternoon to find another message from an Instructional Assistant (IA) that read: “Jake* did a lousy work on Q3 book review. (l got a headache!!!!) He left...
