Free Webinar: Feedback Fail — Why Traditional Feedback Falls Flat

Hey, big news.

I'm doing a free webinar Wednesday, November 1st at 4 p.m.

Central.

We're calling it Feedback Fail, Why Traditional Feedback Falls Flat and How We Can Fix It.

In this webinar, we're going to talk about how to think about feedback differently.

See, the traditional idea that that feedback needs to be the sandwich of a compliment, a suggestion, and another compliment does not actually work.

I do not think we're having the impact that we think we're having as instructional leaders when we give that type of feedback.

I believe good feedback is a conversation.

And in this webinar, we're specifically going to talk about why 90% of teaching is impossible to observe directly and how to use evidence-driven conversation to reveal it.

We'll talk about how to use evaluation criteria as you observe and why you should never rate or score an individual lesson.

We'll talk about the number one mistake leaders make in their documentation, which contaminates their notes and makes that documentation untrustworthy as evidence.

We'll talk about the specific type of question that reveals teacher thinking while remaining anchored in solid evidence.

And we'll talk about why decision-making, not advice, is the real point of leverage for improvement.

So this is a free webinar.

I hope you can join me.

I hope you can invite your instructional leader colleagues to join me for this webinar.

Just go to principalcenter.com slash And if you go to principalcenter.com, you should see it there on the main page as well.

I'd love to have you join us for this webinar.

We're going to be talking about how to think about teacher evaluations differently, how to think about evidence differently, how to think about the nature of teaching practice differently.

And to me, one of the big opportunities is understanding that teaching is intellectual work.

Teaching is cognitive work.

And I think I have Charlotte Danielson's book right here on my desk, which is where it usually lives.

This book, Talk About Teaching, Leading Professional Conversations.

I know it's backwards to you, but this is one of the best books I've ever seen on professional conversation.

Charlotte Danielson says, if teaching is intellectual work, teachers need to talk about their thinking in order to have a good feedback conversation.

And I believe that that needs to actually be a part of our evidence collection for formal observations and evaluations.

And we'll talk about how to do that in next Wednesday's webinar.

That's November 1st at 4 p.m.

Central.

You're welcome to join from anywhere in the world.

It'll be on Zoom.

Registration is at principalcenter.com slash fail.

And I hope to see you there.