Interested in creating a home environment that fosters learning? Looking for ways to overcome common challenges every parent faces in effectively teaching their children? If you answered "yes" to one or both of those questions, this episode may be just what you're looking for. Listen as host Chip Alford talks with education coach and writer A. Keith Young and project manager and trainer Tamarra Osborne about the role of the home as the first learning environment.

GUEST BIOs - A. Keith Young is an education coach, trainer, and writer. After a short stint at seminary, he pivoted to teaching secondary students English and math. Eventually, Keith shifted to training teachers and leading school improvement efforts at the district level. Later, he became a principal, leading school turnaround work and regularly increasing student outcomes by double digits in Colorado, Puerto Rico, and Arizona.

Keith now trains and coaches administrators, school leadership teams, and teacher coaches. As a trainer, he maintains a progressive philosophy and teaching style that embraces the best of constructivism and direct instruction. As a coach, he's known for telling it like it is and using a blended coaching model.

Tamarra Osborne is a project manager, trainer, and coach with WestEd, a San Francisco, California, national nonprofit. Tamarra's philosophy of early education favors students learning through experiences and using play to learn academics. She is known as an effervescent trainer and technical coach who sees the heart of a problem and provides sensible, warm-hearted solutions. Her training topics include formative assessment, curriculum development, presentation skills, implicit bias, and educational technology.

Along with publisher and consultant Angela Bell Julien, Keith and Tamarra are authors of the book, The Instructional Coaching Handbook: 200+ Troubleshooting Strategies for Success.

RESOURCES

• Connect with A. Keith Young on his website: AKYconsulting.com.
• Connect with Tamarra Osborne on Instagram @joyfulpresenter.
• Order The Instructional Coaching Handbook: 200+ Troubleshooting Strategies for Success from your favorite retailer or these sites: Amazon, ASCD, and Barnes & Noble.
  
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  National Association for the Education of Young Children — a professional membership organization that works to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by connecting early childhood practice, policy, and research.
• Parenting Children In the Age of Screens
• Screentime — Parental Control Software with Web Filtering & Monitoring

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