The Secret to Effective Coaching
Lauren Hurt-Ashwin is the e2L Growth Catalyst and her primary responsibility is to provide leadership development to our team of e2L Certified eGROWE Coaches and our district partners. Our district coaches express how Lauren has made a direct impact on…
A Beginner’s Guide to Blended Learning
What is Blended Learning anyway? At the 2019 TASA Midwinter Conference in Austin, Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist for Google, noted that the technology our students use currently will be the least innovative device they’ll ever see. For my Y2K…
The Right Way to Scale Blended Learning (On the Border)
“You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.” –Albert Einstein Laredo ISD (LISD) engaged their community in a process to hear their vision for learners. …
The Importance of Being a Data-Informed Leader
Data-Informed… Not Data-Driven It has always bothered me to hear people talk about being data-driven. Recently, I even heard the term “data-driven culture.” Seriously? Who wants to live in that type of culture? Clearly, data is critical, and we don’t…
Why Coaching Works Best to Grow Educators
Why Coaching? For the past year, I have been trying to reach my health goals on my own. I’ve set a goal for how much weight I want to lose and muscle mass I want to gain. I then put…
For this, I am grateful…
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein The psychology of being thankful is interesting…it is all a matter of…
The Power of Goal Setting in the Classroom
We all know that incomparable feeling of accomplishment. There is just nothing like it, and once you get a taste of success, there is no going back. Our great successes in life typically don’t happen by accident; they are the…
3 Teachers Who Inspire Us All to be Better
In Daniel Pink’s famous work, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, he asserts that the following three components must be present for optimal learning and engagement: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. As a certified eGROWE coach with engage2learn (e2L),…
