Grow the Good via Asset Based Responses with Julie Wright

About this episode

Julie Wright discusses strategies for focusing on assets in education to enhance learning.

What happens when we focus on assets rather than deficits? Listen in as Julie Wright shares strategies for “growing the good” with Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC's Phenomenal Teaching Podcast.  Identifying and leveraging student and teacher assets allows us to, "Size up what students CAN do and use that to lift their learning."  This episode of the Phenomenal Teaching podcast connects to both the community and assessment strands of the PEBC Teaching Framework as well as the culture strand of the PEBC Leadership Framework.   Julie Wright believes that autonomy and agency thrive for children and adults when responses are efficient, effective and equitable. Julie is a traveling teacher, instructional coach, educational consultant, author, and a short texts-of-all- types enthusiast.  You may know Julie through some of her writing, she is the co-author of What Are You Grouping For?, Grades 3-8: How to Guide Small Groups Based on Readers -- Not the Book and author of What’s Our Response? Creating Systems and Structures to Support ALL Learners and Side-by-Side Instructional Coaching: 10 Asset-Based Habits that Spark Collaboration, Risk-Taking, and Growth .  In…

People in this episode

Host: Michelle Morris Jones

Guest: Julie Wright

Topics covered

• asset-based responses
• student and teacher assets
• educational strategies
• autonomy and agency
• instructional coaching

Keywords

• asset-based responses
• educational strategies
• instructional coaching
• student assets
• teacher assets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Public Education & Business Coalition

Books & works: What Are You Grouping For?, Grades 3-8: How to Guide Small Groups Based on Readers -- Not the Book, What’s Our Response? Creating Systems and Structures to Support ALL Learners, Side-by-Side Instructional Coaching: 10 Asset-Based Habits that Spark Collaboration, Risk-Taking, and Growth

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