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How do you choose tasks for your students that ensure students are thinking deeply about the content? This post explores the difference between “hard” and cognitively demanding tasks, making the case that true rigor requires student sense-making, decision-making, and conceptual integration rather than just difficulty, length, or procedural complexity.

This blog explores using a transformational coaching lens to guide instructional coaches in supporting teachers. It emphasizes asking questions over giving immediate advice, attending to underlying beliefs, building trust, and fostering teachers’ agency.

The question of whether or not to leave a workplace can be a challenging one for many teachers. In this blog, one teacher shares her process with exploring core values, and allowing those values to guide her in her decision to change her district.

Many lessons look smooth and engaging—but beneath the surface, who’s really doing the thinking? This post explores how one teacher learned to shift from polished, teacher-driven lessons to tasks that invite students to grapple, make meaning, and do the real work of learning through productive struggle.

How can teacher leaders find support and professional learning as they step into a new role? The answer for me was finding a leadership coach.