What if “we learn from our mistakes” is only half true? In this episode of Coaching the Whole Educator, Becca Silver talks with Dr. Doug Fisher, professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College, about success-oriented learning and what it means for instructional coaching. We’ve all heard that mistakes are opportunities for learning. But making a mistake doesn’t automatically mean we learn from it. And w...
Oct 25
23 min
Episode Summary What if the scripted curriculum we hand new teachers is the very thing burning them out? In this episode of Coaching the Whole Educator, Becca Silver talks with Bob Lenz, CEO of PBLWorks, about how project-based learning (PBL) helps early career teachers thrive instead of just surviving, and why school systems built for consistency keep pulling innovative teachers back into compliance. Bob shares findings from a randomized controlled trial of the Knowledge in Action AP curricu...
Oct 18
35 min
![#205: A Skill Gap Is Not the Same as a Will Gap [Resistance Solution Mini-Session]](https://cdn-images.podbay.fm/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3N0b3JhZ2UuYnV6enNwcm91dC5jb20vbDJheHN6anF3cDU0bjV5cG11dnRucmF1cWo3az8uanBnIiwiZmFsbGJhY2siOiJodHRwczovL2lzMS1zc2wubXpzdGF0aWMuY29tL2ltYWdlL3RodW1iL1BvZGNhc3RzMjIxL3Y0LzEzL2MwL2NkLzEzYzBjZDczLTZkZWMtZDM0Ny1jZjUxLTNlN2Q2MTkwODVmZC9temFfOTg5MDkyMzMxMDkwNjIyODM2Mi5qcGcvNjAweDYwMGJiLmpwZyJ9.Nr0MLzZJEKdqAbOS2qZUedd7lUMEFngIpmJze5cJS6Q.jpg?width=200&height=200)
You've modeled it, co-planned it, and practiced it side by side, and it's still not showing up in the classroom. In this Resistance Solution Mini-Session, Becca Silver reads from Chapter 2 of The Resistance Solution on why more PD and more modeling often miss the mark. Coaches and school leaders get one question to ask before their next coaching move. In this episode: Why resistance often looks like a skill problem on the surfaceThe quiet calculation teachers run before trying something new: ...
Oct 15
6 min
What happens when a new school leader tries so hard to meet everyone’s expectations that they stop leading like themselves? In this episode of Coaching the Whole Educator, Becca Silver talks with Joshua Stamper, author of Aspire to Lead and host of the Aspire to Lead podcast, about perseverance, adversity, and the quiet ways aspiring leaders slip into compliance while trying to prove they belong. Josh shares his unexpected path from art teacher to athletic coach, Dean of Students, and assista...
Oct 12
33 min
Ever leave a coaching conversation feeling great about the advice you gave, only to come back a week later and find nothing has changed? You're not alone, and it's probably not the teacher's fault. In this episode, Becca sits down with her friend and colleague coaching master Chrissy Beltran, known to many as Buzzing with Ms. B, to unpack why coaching conversations so often go nowhere. Chrissy shares why coaches feel pressure to have all the answers, how teachers often ask for help in the onl...
Oct 8
24 min
![#202: The Eye Roll You Can't Stop Thinking About [Resistance Solution Session]](https://cdn-images.podbay.fm/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3N0b3JhZ2UuYnV6enNwcm91dC5jb20vNmJkeDFtM3JuZnBnb2UxZnZ2eGs4eGMzdzIxYT8uanBnIiwiZmFsbGJhY2siOiJodHRwczovL2lzMS1zc2wubXpzdGF0aWMuY29tL2ltYWdlL3RodW1iL1BvZGNhc3RzMjIxL3Y0LzEzL2MwL2NkLzEzYzBjZDczLTZkZWMtZDM0Ny1jZjUxLTNlN2Q2MTkwODVmZC9temFfOTg5MDkyMzMxMDkwNjIyODM2Mi5qcGcvNjAweDYwMGJiLmpwZyJ9.itKT6SuEOeWCV_XSMKIbTWgC3gg9MfVzWCPRmGajr34.jpg?width=200&height=200)
The strategy everyone nodded along to in August? It's thriving in one classroom and missing in action next door. And that eye roll from the back of the room is still living rent-free in your head. In this first episode of Solution Sessions, a new weekly segment of Coaching the Whole Educator, Becca reads the opening pages of The Resistance Solution and names what most leaders feel but rarely say out loud: the emotional whiplash of thinking a teacher is on board, then walking into their classr...
Oct 4
6 min
What if the colleague you've been describing as "quirky" is the most underused talent in your building? In this episode of Coaching the Whole Educator, Becca Silver sits down with Justin Permenter of NDI Institute to talk about building workplaces where neurodivergent educators, coaches, and leaders can perform, contribute, and lead without lowering expectations. Roughly one in five people is neurodivergent, including people with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and dyspraxia. Yet most sch...
Sep 28
24 min
Ever notice how the same piece of feedback lands beautifully with one person on your team and completely bombs with another? Robyn Jackson is back, and this time we're digging into Will Drivers, her framework for the four things that motivate every human being: mastery, purpose, belonging, and autonomy. Here's the twist. Each driver comes with its own core question running in the background of someone's mind: how, why, who, and what. Once you know someone's dominant driver, you stop guessing ...
Sep 20
24 min
**Join the Resistance Solution Facebook Community** https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19TRR5VfpX/ Danny Bauer of Better Leaders Better Schools joins Becca Silver to unpack self mentorship, why traditional PD falls short, and how to become a ruckus maker. Most professional development follows the same script: someone else decides what educators need to learn, when they need to learn it, and how. Danny Bauer, founder of Better Leaders Better Schools and creator of the Ruckus Maker mo...
Sep 7
34 min
In this episode, Becca sits down with instructional coaching and lesson planning expert Lori Cohen (co-author of The PD Book) to talk about her new book, The Science of Lesson Planning, and what transformative lesson design can teach coaches and school leaders about building psychological safety in schools. They dig into psychological safety, the difference between coaching and "coaxing," and why celebration and reflection only work when they happen together. In this episode: Why ...
Aug 23
34 min
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