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  •  Work From Home – Innovating Work During Inclement Weather 

     Work From Home – Innovating Work During Inclement Weather 

    Snow days bring unparalleled joy to students [and educators]. Anticipating and finally hearing the cancellation of school on the news, and now on social media, is almost a childhood entitlement. For most educators, this is welcome news, borderline excitement. I’m convinced that the inner child in all educators turns a couple of cartwheels at the announcement. […]

    Derek L. McCoy

    01/12/2017
    Leadership
  • I’m Not Afraid of the Door Handle

    I’m Not Afraid of the Door Handle

    We are very intentional in our work to make change and trying make teachers feel safe and respected in our endeavors to change students’ lives. I’m very careful to avoid using words like ‘successful’ and ‘right’ because I think it promotes previous stereotypes and mindsets that things have to be done a certain way and/or failure […]

    Derek L. McCoy

    12/11/2016
    change, Leadership, school leadership
  • Value of Shattering Comfort Zones

    Value of Shattering Comfort Zones

    Great things happen in classrooms, in department planning, with school cultures, when we are willing to challenge ourselves. Current students don’t get the ‘Day 23 Activity from the file cabinet’ because the teacher is willing to let go of an activity he/she feels good about and is willing to build a meaningful, personalized activity; We are […]

    Derek L. McCoy

    11/27/2016
    Leadership
  • When Does Profound Learning Occur?

    When Does Profound Learning Occur?

    I’m becoming more cognizant of how and how often I am using the term ‘learning.’ Like most, I’ve been using it mainly to describe how well students regurgitate facts and associate it with an achievement score.  I was recently sharing with some principals in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and about halfway through the presentation I started to […]

    Derek L. McCoy

    11/13/2016
    change, Leadership
  • Engagement vs Empowerment

    Engagement vs Empowerment

    Student engagement has always been a critical goal for how we set up classrooms and develop lesson plans. Ensuring that we have a tight time frame of activities and that we were monitoring students of on-task behaviors were [and are] essentials. This defined quality lesson planning. Some recent training in my district on engagement led me […]

    Derek L. McCoy

    11/06/2016
    Leadership
    empowerment, engagement
  • Lowered Expectations

    Lowered Expectations

    Teaching is one of the most fulfilling professions ever. Ask any teacher who’s had a previous student return to talk fondly about their time in the classroom and you’ll know what makes this job so rewarding. But along with this fulfillment comes some of the greatest challenges – committing to lifelong personal growth and professional development […]

    Derek L. McCoy

    10/23/2016
    change, Leadership
    BYOD, Change, Collaborate, communication, professional development
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