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Month: May 2025

Competence, Confidence, and Lessons from the Field

May 25, 2025 by megankruse

Over the last several weeks, I have had the opportunity to support special education teachers and students at the 7th through 12th grade level.  I have learned a ton, and have a ton more to learn! My colleague and dear friend, Rachella, is retiring soon – just four short school days from now.  Yikes!  Although … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Outreach and collaboration with families and community, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: behavior, clarity, compentence, confidence, diagnostics, Dr. Mitchell Brookins, EdReports, EDView360, goals, individualized education plans, instructional coaching, Mike Schmoker, public education, Rachella Dravis, special education, Voyager Sopris

Reflecting Into Action

May 18, 2025 by megankruse

Reflection is likely the number one tool on the road to improvement.  Whether one is wanting to improve their wrestling stance, their pitching performance, their teaching practice, or their instructional coaching practice 😉 the ability to honestly reflect on their current state positions one to improve. This point was driven home in a recent Maxwell … [Read more…]

Posted in: Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: feedback, George Couros, High Road Leadership, John Maxwell, Mark Cole, Maxwell Leadership, self-reflection, The Reading League, Tina Boogren, victories, wins

A Trifecta in the Sciences

May 4, 2025 by megankruse

I’ve discovered another Trifecta.  I hold a great deal of admiration for Stacy Hurst, Lindsay Kemeny, and Donell Pons, hosts of Reading Horizons Literacy Talks podcast.  That admiration led me to title them, “The Trifecta.”  As I continue to learn about the science of learning, I’m recognizing another Trifecta:  the science of reading, the science … [Read more…]

Posted in: Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: differentiation, Donell Pons, Dr. Anita Archer, Dr. Zach Groshell, Harnessing the Science of Learning, intervention, Iris Center, Just Tell Them, Lindsay Kemeny, Literacy Talks, Louisa Moats, Nathaniel Swain, productive struggle, Reading Horizons, science of learning, science of reading, science of teaching, Stacy Hurst, Stephanie Stollar, the trifecta

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Megan's bookshelf: read

The Flight Attendant
really liked it
The Flight Attendant
by Chris Bohjalian
Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
really liked it
Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
by Jennie Allen
Half Broke Horses
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Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
Ground Zero
it was amazing
Ground Zero
by Alan Gratz
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
really liked it
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg

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