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Becky Morey

Navigating Change

September 22, 2024 by megankruse

It is nearing the end of September, and the work remains difficult.  As I’ve written several times since the start of this school year, our district is implementing lots of change.  Lots. via GIPHY We have gone from a four-building district to a two-building district, meaning new grade levels and new staff are housed under … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, Collaborative culture, 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: Becky Morey, change, Corrine Swigart, embrace, Everything is Figuroutable, FMCSD, George Couros, Jane Santiago, Jenny Herriman, Julie Steele, linds, Lindsay Kemeny, Marie Forleo, Mark C. Perna, Meredith Ireland, PLC's, Rachella Dravis, Solution Tree, Wendy Bailey

Understanding Versus Knowing

September 15, 2024 by megankruse

In Daniel Willingham‘s book, Outsmart Your Brain:  Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make it Easy, he explains:  “‘Knowing’ doesn’t mean being able to understand an explanation; it means being able to explain to others.”  True evidence of learning is having the ability to restate, coherently, what you “know.”  We want to “evaluate … [Read more…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Becky Morey, Benjamin Franklin, Corrine Swigart, Daniel Willingham, el education, FMCSD, four critical questions, Jane Santiago, Jenny Herriman, Kim Cano, Knowing, Libby Woodfin, Outsmart Your Brain, protocols, Rachella Dravis, Solution Tree, student discourse, Suzanne Nathan Plaut, Understanding, Wendy Bailey, Your Curriculum Companion

Figuring It Out

July 15, 2024 by megankruse

Everything is Figuroutable, and most things worth figuring out take time, hard work, perseverance, and collaboration.  Proof of this very concept has come to light over and over again, including this past week. Collaborating with Coaches Our FMCSD instructional coaching staff was tasked with refining our district’s work around identifying essential standards for social emotional … [Read more…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Anna Geiger, Becky Morey, Corrine Swigart, Everything is Figuroutable, evidence, FMCSD, Jane Santiago, Jenny Herriman, Jenny Steffensmeier, Kate Winn, Katie Dailey, Rachella Dravis, Reading Road Trip, Reed Haeger, Ross Haeger, structured literacy, Sue Haeger, Wendy Bailey

Systems Coaching 2.0

March 3, 2024 by megankruse

As our school district embarks on “Systems Coaching 2.0” (not the official name, but rather one given by our instructional coaching staff), I am recognizing inevitable resistance.  The resistance is showing up in multiple forms, including passive resistance, outright “This is ridiculous,” comments, refusal to participate in conversations, angry looks and angry exchanges. While I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Becky Morey, Corrine Swigart, embrace, FMCSD, George Couros, Jane Santiago, Jason Kennedy, Jenny Herriman, Julie Steele, Rachella Dravis, resistance, systems coaching, Wendy Bailey

Attitude of Gratitude

November 26, 2023 by megankruse

It’s probably a bit too cliché to write about gratitude the week in which we celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving, but I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity.  I’m proud to say that I regularly practice an attitude of gratitude, but that attitude was developed over time and is a constant work in progress.  For … [Read more…]

Posted in: Personal Learning, Uncategorized Tagged: Aaron Steffensmeier, Becky Morey, Cooney Kruse, Corner Tap, Corrine Swigart, Elton Kruse, Emmett Kruse, exercise, George Couros, gratitude, Ick Kruse, Iowa Reading League, Isaac Steffensmeier, Jane Santiago, Jenny Herriman, Jenny Steffensmeier, Joe Holtkamp, Katie Dailey, Kirk Wellman, Lisa Williams, Owen Kruse, Papae Wymore, Pomiller Park, power of positive, Rachella Dravis, Ross Haeger, science of reading, Stephanie Edgren, Sue and Reed Haeger, Thanksgiving, The Reading League, Wendy Bailey

Pursuing Perseverance

November 12, 2023 by megankruse

This week has proven to be yet another in which I have found myself in pursuit of perseverance.  As I’ve been writing recently, our district is shifting its instructional coaching model from an invite-only model to a systems coaching model, which means that we no longer wait to be invited into classrooms to support teachers … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Angie Hanlin, Becky Morey, Corrine Swigart, data, FMCSD, George Couros, instructional coaching, Iowa Reading League, Jane Santiago, Jenny Herriman, Lisa Williams, Martin Luther King, Papae Wymore, perseverance, Rachella Dravis, Stephanie Edgren, Sue Haeger, systems coaching, The Reading League, Wendy Bailey

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

November 20, 2022 by megankruse

In the spirit of this Thanksgiving week, this post is dedicated to those things for which I am presently most grateful for.  Each picture included in the post is worth a thousand words… to me, anyway, as they represent my immense gratitude!  I am stealing George Couros’s weekly email format:  I will be writing about … [Read more…]

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Collaboration Over Isolation

January 24, 2021 by megankruse

I have had the good fortune of working with amazing teachers for my entire 25 teaching career.  On each team that I’ve been a part of, we have worked together, laughed together, cried together, shared ideas, lesson plans, successes and failures. Teaching in a silo, without the support of others, whether self-chosen or forced on … [Read more…]

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