We work with a lot of teacher teams and leadership teams. They often feel unsure about having deep conversations about data and evidence. “Data” refers to raw facts, figures, or information collected ...

A new year. 2025. The beginning of each calendar year usually signals the start of the hiring process for vacancies in school and district leadership positions. Excitement abounds as applicants seek ...

“I think you should change your focus from educational psychology to school administration,” Mr. May, my (Peter) principal told me. I was in my third year of teaching. I quickly said, “No, I’m never ...

Data and evidence. Those are two words that leaders and teachers often hear and are certainly not new to the educational vernacular. Recently, we posted a short video on our Instructional Leadership ...

The two of us have a pretty simple goal when facilitating professional learning. Keep things simple, mix research with practice, understand our impact, and ask questions that allow us to learn from ...

Many years ago, I (Peter) wrote this blog explaining why so many educators were joining Twitter, now X. In the blog post from 2011, I wrote, Many educators are intrinsically motivated to find their ...

We’ve all been in meetings where leaders are asked to collaborate, yet the room doesn’t feel collaborative at all. Andy Hargreaves once called this contrived collaboration, which occurs when ...

It’s 9:30 p.m. A teacher checks their email before heading off to bed. Unfortunately, they’ve received a message from a parent who is angry about an interaction the teacher had with their child ...

Over the last year I have been working as an instructional coaching trainer for Jim Knight. Knight has been doing research for a couple of decades through the Instructional Coaching Group.