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Top Five Factors Influencing Teacher Wellness
Sarah Dugan 5/21/24 Sarah Dugan 5/21/24

Top Five Factors Influencing Teacher Wellness

These factors relate to our core human needs in some way. When our needs are met, we are content. Most importantly, contentedness allows us to act as our best selves.

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During this Thanksgiving week, we are sending gratitude to every friend, follower, and educator for making the Teach Learn Thrive community a special place that’s equal parts hard work and joy, authenticity and perseverance… laced with l
Still getting the hang of live video 😅 (How’d I do, @keenlyguidedparenting ?!) but won’t let that stop me share about some energizing collaborations I checked in on this week. ✨ 

St. Ann School and Holy Redeemer School are all in on ins
November newsletter drop 📬 

This month we explore tough questions about current reality in education:

Are American schools lowering expectations in an era of cognitive and literacy decline? 

Our article unpacks the disconcerting evidence and offe
➡️ Apparent contradictions in instructional coaching, and my take on them... The first post in an occasional series. 

⁉️Apparent Contradiction: Coaches must “go slow to go fast,” but they also have no time to waste when it comes to stude
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

Monday motivation…

How can you dissociate from your talents and skills today… and replace that with plain old curiosity? 

Yes, it’s
Storytime: When I was an instructional coach at Fairfax County Public Schools, you couldn’t have convinced me I would be working for myself as an education consultant 10 years later. 

I didn’t see myself as someone who had the will, capa
Hey school leaders... 

Why trust the coach approach? 

Who has time to "go slow to go fast?" 

We all do, if we want sustainable impact on student learning. 

Here is why: Quick fixes don't last, because they come from the outside. 

To in
💡Question for School Leaders: When you talk with a teacher about instruction, who owns the epiphanies? You or them?

Last week, I facilitated a workshop on a Coach Approach to Academic Leadership at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School. 

We dov
At Teach Learn Thrive, we strive to assess the impact of our programming. Our touchstone is Thomas Guskey's model, which includes five levels of data to evaluate professional learning. 

Here's how our multi-layered approach to measuring our impact l

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