If you want to learn to be a more collaborative teacher and are motivated by others then EdCo will move you in the right direction!
EdCo Teacher Spotlight: Everyone is a Student
With a Little Help From My (Critical) Friends
My students will never know that a small group of educators all around Nashville made me a better teacher which in turn has helped them own their learning better.
Doing The Work
Sometime at the end of last school year my Head of High School suggested that I organize a session for the National Association for Independent School’s People of Color Conference. I balked. As a white woman, it felt like an odd choice. My obvious lack of melanin (not to mention my naiveté as a fifth …
EdCo Teacher Spotlight: Work, Vision & Destiny
He believes what we’re doing and working for is not only possible, but within reach. “I leave feeling invigorated and hopeful.”
Collaboration Cubed
In the latest update from the CoOp Corner, we have a story of collaboration that gets right to the heart of The Educators' Cooperative. Lindsey Roe, a Middle School ELL teacher collaborated with Mike Mitchell, Art teacher at Father Ryan High School on a project that included not only their own shared planning and collaboration, …
Reimagining ‘Leadership’ In (and From) The Classroom
Jennifer Weinblatt teaches 6th Grade English at Harding Academy in Nashville, TN. She is an active member of The Educators' Cooperative and its Leadership Committee. In this installment of the CoOp Corner, she examines how we value leadership and some of the alternative qualities that are worth nurturing. If this were a face-to-face conversation, I would …
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Mindfulness: Quieting Minds, Hearts, and Bodies of Elementary Students (and My Own!)
After a short pause in updates in the CoOp Corner for Winter Break and a return to something like normal schedule, we return to the thoughts and experiences of participating Cooperative teachers with an update from Jennifer Ferguson, an Exceptional Education teacher at Hermitage Elementary School. She shares about her experience bringing Mindfulness into her …
Defeat A Deficit Mindset With One Word: Yes
By Colleen Cummings Colleen Cummings shares her experience searching for the right balance between the motivation of "Yes!" and the deficit mindset of "Yes, but..." in the CoOp Corner. Colleen is a founding teacher at Explore! Community School in East Nashville and a member of The Educators' Cooperative Leadership Committee. I started teaching for the …
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Listening, Learning, and Letting Go
By Amy Nystrand Amy Nystrand is a 4th Grade teacher at Gower Elementary School. In this installment in the CoOp Corner, she shares her thoughts on the power of listening to her students as well as to her fellow teachers in the Cooperative when the time came to push harder to engage more challenging critical …
Teaching Math the ‘Write’ Way
Joel Bezaire has been leading and innovating from the classroom for many years, and his work as a 7th Grade Math teacher is both inspirational and well worth exploring. A 2016 national finalist for the Rosenthal Prize for Inspiration and Innovation in Math Teaching, Joel leads district and faculty wide professional development and inservice seminars in …