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Don’t assume, ask!
Classrooms are wonderfully fertile grounds for assumptions. As a weathered teacher, I know the assumption gremlins only too well. They seem to smell the opportunity for negative interpretations, and rush in tumbling over one another like a crazed crowd. Yes, more often than not, these assumptions are fed by our negativity bias.A student’s yawn makes…
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The magic of coaching
Chalk’s been powdering my fingers for more than twenty years by now.Twenty years of privilege, passion and sometimes pain of classroom reality.No, no, I’m not turning my back on my students; this is not a farewell letter.But I am starting a new adventure that’s been tirelessly knocking on my door until it has become impossible…
Shift Zone Coaching 