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Use these accountable talk moves from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, to constructively challenge your students' conclusions and misconceptions. 

Use these sample language frames from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, in your mathematics class to guide your students to deeper understanding through a thorough explanation of their process. 

Use this poster from Teach Like Yourself by Gravity Goldberg to remind yourself of the importance of teaching in a way that is true to your own self.

Use this interview template from Power Up Blended Learning to lead you through the initial conversation between coach and teacher and create the foundation of respect and understanding that is essential to the longterm success of this partnership.

Try using this Word Cloud Activity from Power Up Blended Learning with small groups of teachers to explore their values, find commonalities, and start a conversation around teaching according to those values.

In this excerpt from 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors, the authors recommend Flipgrid, a video discussion tool where prompts are provided by the educator for each discussion topic and then participants respond via video responses, allowing for more in-depth responses than surveys and text allow. 

This excerpt from 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors describes organization tool Google Keep, which educators can use to create task lists for projects, work collaboratively to check off items as completed, and see what else needs to be done.

The authors of 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors recommend three apps (available for iOS & Android) that promote mindfulness and meditation. 

This practice activity from The Five Practices in Practice, Elementary, by Margaret “Peg” Smith, Victoria Bill, and Miriam Gamoran Sherin involves thinking about different ways students might solve the task, planning to respond to students using assessing and advancing questions, and preparing to notice key aspects of students’ thinking in the midst of instruction. 

This handy chart from The Five Practices in Practice, Elementary, by Margaret “Peg” Smith, Victoria Bill, and Miriam Gamoran Sherin identifies a set of moves that teachers can make to hold students accountable for attending to mathematics discussions and presentations.

In this excerpt from Every Child Can Write, Grades 2-5, by Melanie Meehan, you’ll discover how to determine where and how students get stuck in their process, and how we can help them find the right entry point.

Students learn to read and write best when their teachers balance literacy instruction. But how do you strike the right balance of skills and knowledge, reading and writing, small and whole group instruction, and direct and dialogic instruction, so that all students can learn to their maximum potential? Watch this video with Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nancy Akhavan, authors of This Is Balanced Literacy, Grades K-6, as they answer the question: What is balanced literacy?