The LINC Blog

What is the Value of the Teacher in the AI Classroom? - I asked ChatGPT over coffee.

By Tiffany Wycoff

At first glance, the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the midst of the 2022 holiday season could hardly be counted among the items likely to be on a teacher’s wish list. It’s hard to imagine joy at ...

Growth and Connection via Feedback: Ask 5 People These 3 Questions…and Just Listen

By Tiffany Wycoff

In a recent post, “The One We Feed Each Day” I talked about practices I would be trying out to “feed the good wolf” in an ongoing manner. One of them was to encourage more transparency and ...

PD that Builds Connection and Student Agency

By Tiffany Wycoff

The goal of professional development is to enhance the learning experience for the students in our classrooms. However, rarely do we ask students for their input on how to do that. Even more rarely ...

Breathing Through Work

By Tiffany Wycoff

I mentioned during my recent podcast “The One We Feed Each Day” that I’m working on trust at work through better breathing. I figure, what the heck? At 46, it seems like the right year to finally ...

The One We Feed Each Day

By Tiffany Wycoff

As I started this year, it was not without the weight we all felt as our planned holiday festivities morphed into the frantic rush to find rapid tests and the return of near-2020 quarantine levels. ...

Preparing for a Reimagined New School Year

By Tiffany Wycoff

As educators around the world made an unprecedented shift to remote learning, they did so from very different starting points. Some schools with a strong foundation of blended learning already had ...

Taking an Antiracist Stand as a Team

By Tiffany Wycoff

"Connection Above Content" in Back to School

By Tiffany Wycoff

Since March, we have been in a whirlwind of system-wide disruptions. Schools and workspaces shut down suddenly, causing our daily lives to transition in many ways to live “stream” and our ...

Generativity in Action: 3 Steps to Building a Culture of Teacher Generativity

By Tiffany Wycoff

When I first stepped into a leadership role within a school where I had been a teacher, I made several mistakes. Innovation was at the center of my vision for the school’s path forward and I saw a ...

Small Group Instruction & Differentiation in Remote Learning

By Tiffany Wycoff

Last week, I published an article that talked about how to move from basic functionality in remote learning to truly capturing the unique (if not frustrating) opportunity for innovation and ...

We Must Never Go “Back” To School

By Tiffany Wycoff

In March 2020, a line was drawn in educational history. On one side of it is the before - community, classrooms, reading circles, shared tins of pencils sitting on tightly grouped desks, high fives ...

Generativity in Action - 3 Steps to Building a Culture of Student Generativity

By Tiffany Wycoff

As a principal, I hosted many students who were asked by their teachers to “take a break” from their classrooms due to misbehavior. When this happened, I started with student reflection, having them ...