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Classroom Management in a Post-Pandemic World

Blog, Classroom Culture, Educator Insights, Effectiveness, Pedagogy, Social-Emotional, Teaching Strategies | December 13, 2022

In Quantitative Analysis, they teach you to stick with one independent variable to assure validity and reliability in your results. In real life, change often occurs due to a confluence of variables. Not only is today’s student population unlike that of previous...

Sharon Eagen: A Life of Growing and Learning

Blog, Educator Insights, Effectiveness, Pedagogy, Reflection, Teaching Strategies | November 10, 2022

We recently interviewed Sharon Eagen, long time educator of students and teachers, whose thirst for learning has led her to pursue learning, training, and coaching opportunities across the country and around the world. While her story may or may not be too different...

Accountable or Responsible?

Accountability, Blog, Effectiveness, School Culture, School Mission | October 6, 2022

Over the years that I have been involved with Curriculum Trak I have heard many administrators talk about “helping” their staff out by creating curriculum maps for their teachers. “It is a lot to ask of our teachers to create all those maps.” “My staff does...

Growth and Grief: A Cautionary Tale

Blog, Effectiveness, Reflection | May 6, 2022

Like many teachers, I like to view myself as an innovator when it comes to my instructional practices. As I grew from a novice to a more experienced practitioner, I prided myself in being willing to try new things, applying what I was learning from the experts in my...

Teacher Evaluation – On What Basis?

Blog, Effectiveness, Leadership, Resources | April 25, 2022

Editor’s Note: The original version of the following article by Dan Beerens was posted in the Nurturing Faith Blog in 2011. Dan has been thinking about the topic of teacher evaluations for quite awhile, and he has seen several trends come and go in this area. As...

Collective Teacher Efficacy and School-Wide Outcomes

Articulated Curriculum, Blog, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Trak, Effectiveness, Teacher Clarity | February 23, 2022

According to Dr. John Hattie’s educational research examining hundreds of factors that influence student learning, what has the greatest impact on student achievement is collective teacher efficacy. Collective teacher efficacy is the idea of teachers sharing a common...