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Erika Sanneman
The Multilingual Mind helps schools and education teams close the gap between what they know they want to do and what their people actually have the time, training, tools, systems, and support to impl
I've been in the middle of this before: a teacher gets one message from the principal and a different one from the coach.
That is not a problem I want the teacher to have to solve.
If I know a teacher has just been evaluated, I want to understand what feedback they received before I walk in with an entirely different set of priorities. Ideally, the principal and I have already aligned on what we are reinforcing.
And if I realize too late that we have created confusion, I think the first move is to relieve some of that pressure.
"I can see why this feels confusing. Let's focus on these one or two priorities for now, and I'll sort out the rest on my end."
Then I take the disagreement or ambiguity back to leadership privately.
The teacher still needs clear, actionable next steps. They do not need to become the messenger for a systems communication problem.
If your teachers are getting competing messages from coaching, evaluation, and leadership, this is exactly the kind of implementation problem I help schools diagnose through The Multilingual Mind.
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