Research shows that resilient children, or children who do well in the face of serious hardship, typically have one thing in common—strong ...
Posts by Matt Owens
matthew.owens[at]teachstone.com
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As part of our ongoing Interactions at the Heart of Healing work, I recently met with Amanda Wiliford, P.h.D. of the University of Virginia to talk ...
Black children represent only 18% of preschool enrollment but represent 48% of preschool children who receive one or more out of school suspension. ...
A Simple Solution to a Common Problem If you only had one day to get teachers excited about CLASS, what would you do? We know how important it is to ...
Teachers, like all of us, have a limited bank of time and attention. So, it should come as no surprise if they sometimes lose focus on what matters ...
To talk about CLASS, you have to start with kids. Beginning anywhere else just doesn’t capture what’s at the heart of CLASS: interactions that help ...
To talk about CLASS, you have to start with kids. Beginning anywhere else just doesn’t capture what’s at the heart of CLASS: interactions that help ...
If you are responsible for supporting teacher growth, I can make an educated guess about you: you are super busy. I can also guess that you are ...
When I was a teacher, improving classroom interactions meant changing my behavior. While this wasn’t always easy, I always felt like I had direct ...
Long before my time developing online professional development for teachers, in my first year of teaching middle school, I received a gift I would ...