# Teacher Support

## Instructional Leadership in SFC: Why It Matters, What to Do
**September 11, 2025**  
Today’s guest post shares wisdom from Daryl Michel and Dawn Brookhart, authors of the upcoming book Instructional Leadership in Student-Focused Coaching. Building on Hasbrouck & Michel’s widely used guide Student-Focused Coaching,…  
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## 7 Tips for Building a Classroom Library on a Budget
**June 22, 2025**  
A well-stocked, diverse classroom library can help your students develop a lifelong love of reading and expand the key literacy skills you’re teaching every day. Budgets may be tight these…  
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## 10 Important Teaching Quotes to Keep In Mind This School Year
**June 12, 2025**  
As you gear up for the next school year (and hopefully fit in some time for relaxing and recharging), here are a few tips and insights to tuck away in…  
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## 5 Reasons to Get Your Students Unstuck and On Target!
**April 22, 2025**  
Strengthening students’ executive function skills is one of the most important things teachers can do to help students succeed in an era that requires flexibility, emotional regulation, persistence, and strong…  
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## A holiday gift for you
**December 17, 2024**  
Our Brookes family wishes you a peaceful holiday season. To help you find joy throughout the new year, we’ve created a special gift for you: a free printable calendar full…  
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## 21 Trauma-Sensitive Teaching Tips to Try This School Year
**August 1, 2024**  
Trauma-sensitive teaching is vital to both the academic success and social-emotional well-being of your students. This year, as you get to know your new students, keep the trauma-sensitive teaching tips in…  
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## 10 Ways to Teach and Include All Students This Year
**July 25, 2024**  
As you plan for your new school year, what are some ways to meet the learning needs of all students and ensure that your classroom is a place of kindness,…  
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## 7 Elements of Effective Instruction for Students with Reading Difficulties
**June 18, 2024**  
Teachers: do you know what to do to help older students who have difficulty with reading skills? In their book Effective Instruction for Middle School Students with Reading Difficulties, Carolyn Denton…  
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## 4 UDL Books Every Teacher Needs
**June 5, 2024**  
Universal design for learning (UDL) has long been one of the most-discussed topics among our blog readers and social media followers. In this week’s post, we’re highlighting four acclaimed UDL…  
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## Student-Focused Coaching: 10 Best Practices for Administrators and Supervisors
**June 4, 2024**  
Today’s blog post is excerpted and adapted from Student-Focused Coaching by Jan Hasbrouck and Daryl Michel: a one-stop, step-by-step guide to instructional coaching in K–12 schools using the research-based SFC model. The primary…  
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