Hi everyone!  We’re VERY excited to participate in the learning.  We are Cara and Sarah, two Ph.D. students and former classroom teachers and instructional coaches.  We work at the College Level doing some preservice teacher education work, but the bulk of what we do lies in job-embedded coaching in classrooms with teachers and students.  In our new positions at the University, we’ve been thrown into the world of Research One, in the hopes that we can pull those theoretical meanderings out of the clouds and make it practical in our daily work with teachers and students.  Likewise, we seek to bring teacher and student voice into focus as we discuss the issues that are relevant to teaching and learning today.  Thanks for doing this!

Hi everyone!  We’re VERY excited to participate in the learning.  We are Cara and Sarah, two Ph.D. students and former classroom teachers and instructional coaches.  We work at the College Level doing some preservice teacher education work, but the bulk of what we do lies in job-embedded coaching in classrooms with teachers and students.  In our new positions at the University, we’ve been thrown into the world of Research One, in the hopes that we can pull those theoretical meanderings out of the clouds and make it practical in our daily work with teachers and students.  Likewise, we seek to bring teacher and student voice into focus as we discuss the issues that are relevant to teaching and learning today.  Thanks for doing this!