I have been fortunate in my career as a primary school teacher and
now as an instructional coach to work with building administrators who put students first, and as a teacher leader I strive to be a true example of student - centered teaching and learning.
Not exact matches
Bill Sheskey is a lifetime educator with experience
as a public school
instructional technology specialist, classroom teacher, athletic
coach, and is
now affiliated with Heidi Hayes Jacobs's Curriculum Designers Inc.
as a faculty member.
The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and
instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated
as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is
now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such
as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.
Now that I am in a traditional setting and working
as a Digital Learning
Instructional Coach, with a teachers union doing the legwork to negotiate raises and class sizes
as well
as stipulations around evaluations and stipends, I realize that the grass is not always greener.
Now, she and many others are fulfilling the responsibilities of their job, not in the main office where they have traditionally conducted business, but in classrooms,
as instructional coaches and teacher evaluators.
Cara Johnson, a former high school anatomy teacher in Allen, Texas, who
now works
as an
instructional coach, has even seen students whose teachers have not adopted a flipped model approaching their peers in flipped courses to get their videos.
Having experience
as a Grade 9 Mathematics
Coach, Kyle
now teaches secondary mathematics in the morning at Tecumseh Vista Academy and dedicates his afternoons to Intermediate
Instructional Coaching for the Greater Essex County District School Board through the Middle Years Collaborative Inquiry (MYCI) Project.
Now, Nicole home schools one medically fragile child and works part - time for Student Growth Center
as an
instructional coach collaborating on a variety of projects and facilitating the online portion of some international education courses.