This month's update from the CoOp Corner is chock-full of ideas you can use in your next team planning meeting or on your own reflecting on how to dig more deeply into the standards.
Unpacking a Standard
Lunch and Learn
This month's update from the CoOp Corner features a reflection from Claire Delcourt, an Instructional Coach at LEAD Brick Church Middle. She shares how she uses her time in the cafeteria to focus on practicing (and then reflecting and improving in) what she preaches. A favorite part of my school day this year has been …
EdCo Teacher Spotlight: Everyone is a Student
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!
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.
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.”
Microaggressions: How to Spot ‘Em, How to Stop ‘Em
Creating the space for your students to take risks and make mistakes is some of the hardest work teachers do. When 6th Grade English teacher Katie Reen set out to make that space for her students in the realm of microaggressions in texts they were reading together, they practices and discovered much more than they …
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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 …
Put on your cape, and rise above it!
Our guest in the CoOp Corner is Tiffani Norman, an Advanced Academic Resource Teacher at Eakin Elementary School, MNPS. Many schools in Nashville recently paused for a Fall Break, giving teachers, students, and families an opportunity to catch their breath as the routines and schedules of the new school year start to solidify. Tiffani took …
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 …