Virtual School Dispatches

  Invitational Education Purkey and Novak assert that there are four types of educators: 1) intentionally inviting, 2) unintentionally inviting, 3) unintentionally uninviting, 4) intentionally uninviting. Fortunately, I can only think of one teacher in my 28 years of teaching who was intentionally uninviting teacher--a teacher that relished failing students and zapped the love of learning for even honor students. Intentionally inviting teachers are consistently positive and actively seek ways to build trust, rapport and relationships with students. They are purposeful in their actions and demonstrate a growth mindset by believing in their ability to positively influence each student, and they are supportive to the needs of their students and take necessary steps to ensure their success. Unintentionally inviting teachers are energetic but unaware. While positive with students they sometimes can be inconsistent because they sometimes get caught in the doldrums when things go poorly U...

  Excellence in Education At this week’s PLC/faculty meetings, we are going to be sure to celebrate all the super actions you have taken to make virtual learning awesome for our scholars in 5 domains. This is from Corwin/Visible Learning Group and some of the bullets are from their document and others are ones that I have filled in.   If you'd like to work on yours in advance, here’s the link (forced copy)   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g11Gz0bi1iuRQX9IgB0vm7zvoiJFfhWDfj24LBcdXII/copy   Teacher   Empathy   How do students seek connections with teachers? Begin class with positive affirmations (jokes, quotes, stories, etc) Student emotional or academic check-ins (temperature/pulse takers)     Unconditional   Positive Regard How do students know teachers care about them as people?   Include specific student interests in lessons Use voice feedback (Mote is great for Google) so students can hear your enthusiasm Recognitions and rewards...