Category Archives: Teachers

What Is A Coach? (3of3)

Posted on October 18, 2011 by sutterlearn

This is the third in a three-part series of posts examining my evolving understanding of the “transformational/instructional coach” role that is new in our district, based directly on conversations I have had. Teacher Friend: You’ve never taught in my (grade/subject/building/classroom) … Continue reading →

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What Is A Coach? (2of3)

Posted on October 18, 2011 by sutterlearn

This is the second in a three-part series of posts examining my evolving understanding of the “transformational/instructional coach” role that is new in our district, based directly on conversations I have had. Parent Friend: So what do you do in … Continue reading →

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What Is A Coach? (1of3)

Posted on October 16, 2011 by sutterlearn

This is the first in a three-part series of posts examining my evolving understanding of the “transformational/instructional coach” role that is new in our district, based directly on conversations I have had. Me: What do you think about the coach … Continue reading →

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The Marathon Metaphor Is A Lot of Simile

Posted on October 16, 2011 by sutterlearn

It was actually my wife’s goal to complete the Detroit Half Marathon today.  I just joined her for the time it provided us alone for early morning and sunny Sunday afternoon walks together as we trained.  As I ran, I … Continue reading →

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Learning Is A Process

Posted on October 6, 2011 by sutterlearn

I’ve been watching the learning process a lot lately, but I just didn’t realize it.  As some teachers I work with are learning to use a new curriculum tool, others are learning to restructure their instructional time to reteach to … Continue reading →

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The Ms. Alice Files

Posted on September 24, 2011 by sutterlearn

As I struggled to find my legs in this new role of Instructional Coach, I remembered Ms. Alice.  Ms. Alice was a teacher who retired from my building after forty-years, the year before I started teaching.  Unannounced or introduced, she … Continue reading →

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Learn and Serve

Posted on September 1, 2011 by sutterlearn

It’s been almost three months since I’ve written here.  To be honest, I needed that time to step away from the intense schedule I’ve run for the previous nine years.  Quite literally, I have been a formal student, full-time employee, … Continue reading →

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Spelling is Impotent…

Posted on May 30, 2011 by sutterlearn

Surely, I noticed the erroneous error in this title, but spellcheck didn’t!  I thought it was a clever intro to this heartwarming story direct from our classroom last week.  I sat with one of our young writers reviewing her “About … Continue reading →

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I Felt Annie There

Posted on May 15, 2011 by sutterlearn

A few weeks ago I wished for a lever as I blogged about our team’s experience during a weeklong nature trip.  The culmination of that week was a lesson on songwriting where we analyzed some of the songs we’ve learned … Continue reading →

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Earth In Good Hands

Posted on May 10, 2011 by sutterlearn

In a reading group today, I was helping two boys read through an article about floods.  The gist of their synthesizing was that the Army Corp of Engineers had to make a hard decision, to either flood 130,000 acres of … Continue reading →

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