Active supervision in early childhood gets reduced to "keeping an eye on children."

But the research tells a much richer story. 🧵

#just4you #tinyshifts #EDUsky

We say we want agency—students who own learning, teams who take initiative, leaders who empower.

But here's the gap: we ask people to "own" work they had no voice in shaping.

That's what my new 📗 is about. It drops Apr. 28.

Where do you see this tension in your work?
#just4you #tinyshifts #EDUsky

Punitive vs. restorative: it’s more than words. It’s a mindset shift.

Teachers at the International School of Bucharest explored how small shifts in language = stronger community, safer classrooms, and more durable behavior change.

#just4you #tinyshifts #RestorativePractices #TeachingTips #EDUsky

Final Tiny Shift of the season!

Real instructional growth doesn’t happen in isolation.
It happens together.

Co-planning. Co-teaching. Shared sense-making.
That’s where improvement becomes sustainable.

🎥 Tiny Shift No. 16: Improve Together, Not in Isolation

#just4you #TinyShifts #EDUsky

Tiny Shift No. 15: Start at the edges, not the center.

#UDL isn’t about adding supports later.
It’s about removing barriers before students ever hit them.

Low floors. Wide walls. Reinforced corners. High (or no) ceilings.

That’s how learning becomes expansive.

#just4you #TinyShifts #EDUsky

Tiny Shift No. 14:
Design for everyone, not just someone.

UDL isn’t flashy—it’s simple moves that remove barriers before they appear:
• sentence stems
• icons
• body language
• clarity that supports all learners

When access comes first, deeper learning follows.
#just4you #EDUsky #UDL #TinyShifts

🎧 Listening is leadership.
Because trust—the soil where agency grows—starts when people feel heard, not managed.

🎥 Tiny Shift No. 13: Listening as Leadership
Filmed while working on a puzzle 🧩 because that’s how the pieces come together.

#just4you #EDUsky #TinyShifts #Leadership #TeacherAgency

We talk a lot about what to add to teaching.

But real growth? It’s just as much about what we’re willing to unlearn.

Sometimes, letting go IS the learning. 🌊

#just4you #EDUsky #TinyShifts #Education #TeacherAgency #UDL #IBSchools #ReflectivePractice

With AISG’s G5 team this morning, we explored a few tiny shifts that help students reason and problem-solve more deeply in mathematics (and beyond!)

Wait. Revoice. Compare. Connect.

When students can say their thinking, they can grow their thinking.

#just4you #EDUsky #tinyshifts #MathDiscourse

I ❤️ working w/ G3 at AISG!

We explored how healthy scaffolds can keep expectations high while opening access for plurilingual readers & writers.

Sometimes it’s the tiny shifts—a sentence stem, a sketch, a multilingual partner talk—that raise participation for everyone.

#just4you #TinyShifts #UDL

The best professional learning doesn’t fade—it lives.

Tiny Shift No. 11: See learning not as an event, but as a way of being.

When we LIVE what we learn—through our language, our choices, our planning—it sticks.

#just4you #EDUsky #TinyShifts #ProfessionalLearning #TeacherAgency #UDL

A great lit coach in Seoul shared this: Tiny Shift 6 in the teachers’ restroom!

“...We need to see literacy not as a subject, but as the current that flows through everything we teach.”

I love that this message is literally part of the daily current of school life.🌊😉
#just4you #TinyShifts #EDUsky

Labels flatten learners.
Evidence reveals them.

Tiny shift: less labeling, more listening, noticing, and responding.

#just4you #EDUsky #TinyShifts #ReadingInstruction #Literacy

Sometimes the most powerful teaching move isn’t what we say, but the silence we hold.

When we pause, we give students space to think, process, and find their own words.

That’s where learning sparks. ✨

#just4you #EDUsky #Teaching #Education #AgencyInLearning #TinyShifts

Tiny Shift #5 💡

At EuroSur in Monterrey, I named again something simple but profound:

Rituals + routines aren’t about control. They’re about freedom.

When routines scaffold for agency, students don’t just follow…they own their learning.

#just4you #tinyshifts #studentagency #edchat #EDUsky

When teachers have agency, students do too. Here’s why it matters now more than ever.

#just4you #EDUsky #TeacherAgency #Education #Teaching #tinyshifts

This week’s Tiny Shift → one question that stops teachers in their tracks:

“What are you allowed to care deeply about here?”

I’d love to hear your take.

What are you allowed to care about in your school?
What do you wish you were allowed to?

#just4you #EDUsky #tinyshifts #teacheragency

🚨Tiny Shift No. 2🚨

When EY to MYP teachers align on how kids learn to read, clarity follows. The International School of Älmhult is leading the way. 💗💗

#just4you #tinyshifts #EDUsky #readinginstruction #ibpyp #ibmyp

The best schools I visited last year didn’t do more.
They focused on less—on purpose.

🎯 Clarity > Complexity
🎯 Alignment > Activity

Watch Ep. 1 of my new #TinyShifts series.

#just4you #EDUsky #schoolleadership #agencyineducation