Nancy Ann Creed

  To start, I want to express what a wonderful experience this has been. It has truly revitalized my passion for education and reignited a fire in my heart. GO REVEUR  (That is my house and the best house!)  First Impressions: Energy and Environment Upon entering the school, we were greeted by an incredible sight: students lined the hallways, waving warmly and offering a heartfelt welcome. Their remarkable poise was immediately evident; they looked us directly in the eye with firm handshakes, contributing to an atmosphere electrified by the staff’s palpable energy. It is clearly an environment where emotional support for both students and staff is a top priority—a transformative experience that I believe every educator should have the opportunity to witness firsthand. We eventually made our way into the "heart" of the school: a grand rotunda where a student band performed at the front. The physical appearance of the facility—a former warehouse in down...

  Photo by fauxels on Pexels.com The Three Lenses: The Influence of Literacy Coaches and Observations  When Literacy Coaches observe teachers, most of the time they use set rubrics to determine what the teacher needs to work on and what they are doing well. “Our analysis of the coaches’ discussion about their ratings on the rubrics led us to identify three lenses- or ways of looking- that influences their observations: the pedagogy lens, the responsiveness lens, and the relevancy lens,” Rodgers & Rodgers, (2007). What do these lenses mean and how do they affect our teaching and our ability to coach?   Each time the Literacy Coach watches a lesson and observes how a teacher teaches; they think about how they would have taught that lesson. “Adrian conceptualized a mechanism called a pedagogical lens to help understand how the same teaching might be viewed and interpreted differently by different people (A. Rogers, 2002),” Rodgers & Rodgers, (2007)....