Lisa Dabbs

Inspiring, Mentoring and Equipping aspiring and current Women in Ed Leadership to UPlevel their careers!

Lisa Dabbs

Inspiring, Mentoring and Equipping aspiring and current Women in Ed Leadership to UPlevel their careers!

Tell Your Classroom Story

Tell Your Classroom Story

This post originally appeared as an ongoing series on EdweekTeacher.org The New Teacher Chat: Advice, Tips, and Support Christine, Your post a few weeks ago on Finding Your Voice had some great points. I think new teachers are reluctant to share their voice on any...

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3 Tips to Support a Reflective Teaching Practice

3 Tips to Support a Reflective Teaching Practice

This post originally appeared as an ongoing series on EdweekTeacher.org The New Teacher Chat: Advice, Tips, and Support Christine, Your post on The Value in Reflection was so much fun to read. Looks like you're jumping into the new year with incredible energy! Your...

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Communication That Strengthens Connections with Families

Communication That Strengthens Connections with Families

This post originally appeared as an ongoing series on EdweekTeacher.org The New Teacher Chat: Advice, Tips, and Support Dear Christine, Happy New Year! I hope you had an enjoyable winter break. It’s such a wonderful time of year to relax and spend time with family and...

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Feedback and Relationships: Helping Teachers Thrive

Feedback and Relationships: Helping Teachers Thrive

The Power of Feedback As an elementary school principal, I worked with amazing educators in some challenging school communities. I saw students rise to success and bring joy to their parents. Every step that I made and action that I took became critical to the success...

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How The Morning Meeting Can Transform Classroom Culture

How The Morning Meeting Can Transform Classroom Culture

This post originally appeared as an ongoing series on EdweekTeacher.org The New Teacher Chat: Advice, Tips, and Support Dear Christine and Friends, When I read your post on how you put yourself in the shoes of your students, I imagined all these little feet running...

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Beat the Back-to-School Jitters with Twitter!

Beat the Back-to-School Jitters with Twitter!

Every Wednesday at 5 p.m. PT, 8 p.m. ET, I host New Teacher Chat (#ntchat) on Twitter. It’s a time for new and pre-service teachers, as well as supportive administrators and experienced teachers, to gather online and have discussions about topics that are practitioner...

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Feedback and Relationships: Helping Teachers Thrive

Twenty Tips for Success for New Teachers #ntchat

(Me and my pre-service teachers.) I love to learn and grow and this post is meant to be a support to those of you new to the teaching profession. It's also meant to be a way for me to collaborate with YOU, virtually. All the rest of the month of August, I will be...

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New Teachers: Are You Using Periscope? #ntchat

New Teachers: Are You Using Periscope? #ntchat

Last year I began to use Periscope and I shared a post about that here. I have since been using it so much more. I've also been studying some big time scoper's and want to see how often new and pre-service teachers are using it. Sadly, not many are. After a year of...

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